CHAPTER VIII. 
Countries South of the Niger. 
TpHE account which the Shereef has given of fuch of the king- 
doms to the South of the Niger as he himfelf has vifited, is too 
deficient in geographical information to furnifli a clear and de- 
terminate idea of this part of his travels : and though the names 
of the principal States in whofe capitals he traded, or through 
whofe dominions he pafied, may be ufed with advantage as the 
means of future enquiry, and are therefore inferted in the map 
which accompanies this Narrative ; yet the places affigned them 
muft be confidered as in fome degree conje£lural. That the line 
of his journey was towards the Gold Coaft, there is, however, 
the 
