CHAP. III. 
ACCOUNTS OF HORNEMAN. 
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deportment and skill in medicine ; and he was generally considered 
as a Maraboot. After a short time they proceeded with another 
party of merchants to Noofy, living together in the house of a man 
named Ah, of the tribe Fellata. It was Horneman's custom while 
on his journeys after quitting Fezzan, to note down the bearings 
of every tree, mountain, or village, he saw ; by which means he 
might be more easily enabled to know his road again without a 
guide. His intention was to go on through Dagomba to Ashantee, 
which is forty days' journey to the southward. When our mer- 
chant left Noofy, he was in good health and spirits, and had not 
experienced any difficulties ; but this man, on arriving in Kashna, 
heard that Horneman had died of dysentery, a few days after their 
separation. 
The clearest account I have yet heard of the rivers which flow 
near Kashna is from a person named Mustaplia, a son of the old 
Mamluke who, with his two other sons, was strangled by Mukni. 
This man fled, and spent some years in Soudan. He has himself 
passed three rivers, all running from east to west, as he thinks ; but 
will not be positive. One alone is very considerable ; fish, alliga- 
tors, and hippopotami, being found in it. It is very deep, and is 
passed in boats, and by rafts. He mentions the rivers in the fol- 
lowing order : 
Kashna to the river Ringhem is seven days east. This river is 
the smallest ; it is deep, but narrow ; water quite fresh. A town, 
called Sankara, is distant one day east. 
From Kashna to the river Doodroo is six days nearly south. On 
this river are canoes, which are hollowed out of a single tree : they 
have sharp bottoms, not rounded. They are numerous, and serve 
equally well for fishing, and for ferry-boats from shore to shore. 
From Kashna to Kattagum (which again appears east-north- 
east on the road to Bornou) south-east is ten days. This river is 
