GEOGRAPHY. 
17T 
tbe 4 journies by land thence to Sallagha, agree very well with the 
distance and position of that place, as before calculated by the 
17 days route from Cooinassie. The houses of Sallagha and other 
towns of Inta were mentioned as pecuHar from being round. 
Leo Africanus observed houses built in the form of bells at 
Timbuctoo. 
Seven days from Sallagha, N. E. according to the Moors, through 
the Inta town of Zongoo, is Yahndi, the capital of Dagwumba, 
which I have placed, calculating the course at N. E. by E., and 
allowing 18 miles for each journey, as the country is said to be 
open, in 55' E. and 8° 38' N.: the position is assisted by the com- 
mon account of its being 8 journies from Daboia, by route No. 13, 
and that two obscure, but direct paths to Daboia and Yahndi, from 
Coomassie, occupy the first 19 days, and tlie latter (described as 
laying between Daboia and Sallagha) 23 days. Sir William Young, 
in his Report of the Geography and History of Northern Africa, 
writes, " the Slatees of Old Calebar are said to carry on their trade 
to Degombah northzmrd" which also supports my placing it more 
to the eastward than it appears in Major RennePs map. Y'ngwa, 
a district and large town of Dagwumba, is said to lie 8 days north- 
westward of Yahndi, through Sakoigoo ; its distance from Daboia, 
by report 6 journies, places it about N. N.W. Two journies from 
Daboia, towards Yngwa, is the river AdifTofoo, about 60 yards 
wide, running eastward, 2 journies from which is Kooboro, a large 
Dagwumba town. 
North-eastward of Yahndi is Tonomah, of which I do not recol- 
lect more than the name, though I think it is a town and district of 
Dagwumba. The kingdom of Tonowah, of which Assentai has 
been described as the capital by the Shereef Imhammed,* must 
* In the Dutch copies of the old Portuguese charts, Xabunda (perhaps Banda) is 
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