£22 DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH. 
Jobson of Tenda, and all the territory around it. 
The understood price was a few bottles of his 
best brandy ; which Jobson paid, not without some 
.reluctance, being much apprehensive that his neW 
dominions would never yield him an equivalent even 
for the small purchase money. 
About this time their stay was inclined by the 
arrival of the king of Jelicot (Jallacotta), with his 
" juddies and fiddlers." These juddies our au- 
thor compares to the Irish rhymers. During the 
whole time of meat, they recite songs in praise of 
the king or his ancestors. After death they are 
not interred in the usual manner, but W put in a 
" hollow tree upright." Here he heard of two 
places in the neighbourhood, Tomba-konda (Tani- 
bacunda of Park), and Jaye. Of these, he imme- 
diately concluded the one to be Tombuctoo, and 
the other Gago, a country described by Leo as 
abounding with gold. Tombuctoo, at that era, 
was always considered to be nearer to the jeoast 
than it really was. Hence every traveller, who 
had made any progress up the river, daily expect- 
ed that the next city he came to would be Tom- 
buctoo. Jobson, however, did not visit it ; and, 
for reasons not fully explained, did not pusfr his 
discoveries farther. He does not even express any 
regret upon that subject, though he alludes at one 
place to a bar of sand stretching across the river, 
as forming the chief obstacle* But he, perhaps, 
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