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river, which has not its equal upon the earth ; it comes from 
the Mountain of the Moon, which lies beyond the equator. 
Many sources come from this mountain, and unite in a great 
lake. From this lake comes the Nile, the greatest and most 
beautiful of the rivers of all the earth. Many rivers, derived 
from this great river, water Nubia and the country of Djen- 
awa. It is very remarkable, that all the other rivers have their 
direction to the east, the west, and the soutii, and that the 
Nile alone flows to the north. This river cuts horizontally 
the equator, traverses Abyssinia, the country of Coucou, 
comes to Syene, cuts Egypt throughout its whole length, and 
throws itself into the sea between Tunis and Damietta. The 
branch which passes through Djenawa does not flow to the 
sea, but only to the end of the inhabited part of the land of 
Ghana. 
No V. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE GOLD TRADE OF TOMBUCTOO AND 
MELLI. FROM THE ITALIAN OF CADAMOSTO. (1507.) 
Beyond Hoden, more than six days' journey inland, is a 
place called Tegazza, where there is quarried an immense 
quantity of rock salt, and every year large caravans of camels, 
composed of Arabs and Azanaghis, carry it to Tombuctoo, and 
go thence to Melli, a kingdom of the negroes, where having 
come, the said salt is disposed of in eight days at the rate of 
from two to three hundred mitigalli (minkallis) the load, ac- 
cording to its size ; a mitigal is worth a ducat, or thereabouts ; 
then they return home with their gold. In that kingdom of 
Melli the heat is very great, and the food is very hurtful to 
quadrupeds, so that in the greater part of those that go with 
