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large kaffles, who bring rock salt, come annually, is twenty-four 
days north of Tembuctoo. Telemsen, which is twelve days north 
of the latter, or indeed half-way to Taudenny, is remarkable for a 
desert, having no water for ten days ; thence called Asheria. Ma- 
brook is three days north of this place, ten days south of Taudenny, 
seven days east of Arowan, and eighteen days south of Awlef in 
Tuat. 
Sala is a place three days from Tembuctoo, on the Nil to the 
eastward. 
The Nil, Goulbi, Joliba or Kattagum, runs from Tembuctoo, 
through IMelU in the country of the Fellata ; thence to Kebbi, 
which is three days north of Nooffy : past this place or country, it 
runs to Yaowri, which is seven days east ; from thence to Fendah, 
a Fellata country S.W. of Kashna, which latter kingdom it passes at 
tliirteen days south of the capital. It again makes its appearance 
at Kattagum, four days W.S.W. of the capital of Bornou, where it 
runs into a lake, called the Tsaad. Beyond this lake, a large river 
runs through Baghermee, and is called the Gambarro and Kama- 
dakoo ; the word Nil being also used for the same stream. — Thus 
far are we able to trace the Nil, and all other accounts are merely 
conjectural. All agree, however, that by one route or other, these 
waters join the great Nile of Egypt, to the southward of Dongola. 
Wangara is a place of whicli we cannot obtain any decided 
account ; it is, however, generally supposed to be a low country, 
and sometimes inundated. One person states it to be twenty days 
south of Tembuctoo ; another places it south of Kashna ; and many 
even assert, that it is beyond W aday : but it is quite impossible 
from the varied accounts given of it, to form any idea as to its 
actual situation, or even existence. 
Should there really be three places so called, may it not be 
probable that it is a general name for marshes and swamps ? In 
