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a country, as rich in its own productions as by the commerce 
that it carries on with Seg-o and Tombuctou, which derive 
from it the wealth they are known to possess. 
Tangarari, ten days' journey from Timbo, a flat covmtry 
inhabited by Pagan Poulas. The English have there placed 
the sources of the Niger or Dialliba. This river, however, is 
two gun-shots wide in the place where they assert that it rises. 
To the south-east are : — Firia, ten days' journey from 
Timbo, a mountainous country inhabited by Djalonkes ; in 
the woods which separate Firia from Fouta Diallon, is the 
source of the Caba, supposed to be the river of Sierra Leone. 
Soliman, a mountainous country inhabited by Djalonkes, 
is ten days' journey from Timbo. 
Kouranko, eight days' journey from Timbo, is a moun- 
tainous country inhabited by Tomakés and Kourankos. The 
source of the Nisrer or Dialliba is situated in the woods which 
separate Soliman from Kouranko, eleven days' journey to the 
south-east of the source of the Senegal. 
Liban is eight days' journey to the south of Timbo ; it is 
a mountainous country, inhabited l^y Libankés ; the rainy 
season there lasts but three months ; the corn harvest is in 
June. The king of this country has had a very nari'ow door 
constructed in front of the fort which he occupies, and has 
placed a very large stone behind it ; such of his subjects, as 
in passing, touch the door-way or tread on the stone, become 
slaves. When a merchant goes to the king of Liban, this 
