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leaving Wara till their return to that place, or Col?be. Of the 
time adually employed in the route they differ in their report, 
but it may be eftimated at from 150 to 180 days; at a me- 
dium 165. Wangara I have never heard mentioned. Whe- 
ther it may be the fame country with fome one of thofe 
defcribed is uncertain ; but its production being gold, does not 
accord with any of them ; that commodity not being, as far as 
was related to me, found in any quantity to the W. Zamphara 
is yet known to feveral of my informers, as a country near to 
Bornou; but no particular defcription was given. 
The dotted lines which are feen in the general map, and feem 
to mark with too much precifion the extent of the empires 
Bergoo^ Baghermi^ and Kordofdn, are chiefly defigned to fhew the 
relative fituation of thofe diftrids, and how they border on 
each other, or on Fur, The authority recurred to was only 
that of the inhabitants of each country, who affirmed that their 
native empire extended fo many days from E. to W. and fo 
many from N. to S. For the general form of Bar-Fur the 
authority is fomewhat llronger ; the precife termination of that 
empire being accurately known to the feveral reporters in each 
principal diredion. 
The writer, during his ftay in Dar-Fur, could never find the 
variation of the needle greater than fixteen degrees W. In 
what relates to that country, therefore, he has been guided by 
that quantity of variation. 
