MR HORNEMAN'S TRAVELS 
431 
"With regard to the river explored by Park, and 
which Europeans call the Niger, Mr Hofneman's 
information is, that it flowed from Tombuctoo east- 
ward through the kingdoms of Haussa, particular- 
ly Nyff e and Cabi, where it is called Gulbi, (the 
same as Joliba) ; it then passed through part of 
Bornou, whence it turned suddenly southwards, 
and, passing along the southern frontier of Darfur, 
flowed on to Sennaar, being the same stream with 
the Bahr-el-Abiad, or Egyptian Nile. One per- 
son, however, assured him, that the communica- 
tion took place only during the wet season, and 
that at other times the Nile was reposing, or non 
Jluens. 
After some stay at Fezzan, Mr Horneman made 
an excursion to Tripoli, whence he returned to 
Fezzan on the 29th January 1800. On the 6th 
April, he writes on the point of setting out with 
the caravan for Bornou, along with two great She- 
reefs, whose protection he considers as placing him 
in full security. No intelligence being received 
from him during that and the two following years, 
very serious despondence began to arise. On the 
17th January 1804, the Altona Gazette stated, 
that, in September 1803, Mr Nissen, the Danish 
consul at Tripoli, saw there a merchant of Fezzan, 
lately arrived by the caravan, and inquiring of him 
after Jussuph, the name under which Horneman 
travelled, the merchant replied, that Jussuph was 
