40 DISCOVERIES DURING 
eagerness, and digging up the earth, in every part 
of which they find a greater or less quantity of 
gold. Immediately after, arrive the merchants 
from every part of Africa, to exchange their vari- 
ous commodities against this single one. The prin- 
cipal cities of Wangara were Reghebil and Seme- 
gonda, both handsome, and situated on the shore 
of large fresh water lakes. 
To the west of Ghana lay the kingdom of Toc- 
rur, including the capital city of the same name, 
with those of Sala and Berissa. The monarch is 
said to have been also very powerful, and his do- 
minions the seat of an extensive commerce ; but 
in both these particulars yielding to Ghana. This 
kingdom was also traversed by the Nile of the Ne- 
groes, which, after flowing sixteen days journey 
westward from Tocrur and Sala, fell into the sea, 
or more probably into a large lake. At some dis- 
tance from its shore was found the island of Ulil, 
which afforded salt so abundantly as to supply all 
the states of Nigritia ; those states being then, as 
now, wholly destitute of that necessary of life. To 
the south of all these countries lay the extensive 
region of Lamlam (supposed the Melli of Leo). 
Great part of it was a desert ; the rest inhabited 
by people who were little removed from savages. 
This tract afforded to the people on the Niger a 
theatre for the barbarous practice of slave hunting. 
Inroads were habitually made for that sole pur- 
