brue's second voyage. 
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merchants added, that Tombiictoo was not upon 
the Niger, but at a considerable distance in the 
interior. Leaving the Senegal at Kaignu, where 
it ceased to be navigable, they passed by Jaga, 
Bayogne, Konguru, Sabaa, Baramaga, Goury, and 
Galama, to Timbi. This journey occupied twen- 
ty-seven days. At Timbi they quitted the river, 
and, after a land journey of five or six days, arriv- 
ed at Tombuctoo. Here the Niger was evidently 
quitted with the view of reaching Tombuctoo by 
a more direct route ; and was erroneously sup- 
posed to be distant from it by the whole of that 
route. A lake, called Maberia (the Dibbie of 
Park), was also mentioned, from which the Sene- 
gal was generally said to issue. Beyond it lay the 
kingdom of Ghingala ( Jinbala of Park), watered 
by the river Ghien, which passed by Tombuctoo. 
A large caravan of white men, whom the French 
justly conjectured to be the Moors of Barbary, 
with fire-arms, arrived every year at Tombuctoo, 
for the purposes of trade. Large barks, with masts, 
had been seen near Tombuctoo, which were con- 
jectured, though erroneously, to belong to the 
Tripoli merchants. 
With regard to the course and direction of the 
Niger, two opposite statements were given. One, 
according to the prevailing European opinion, re- 
presented it as derived from a source that lay far 
to the eastward. After passing through the lake 
