GEOGRAPHY. 
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One day from Sallagha, towards Yahndi, and scarcely one 
journey westward from the latter, is the rivet- Laka, described to 
be as large and as rapid as the Adirri or Volta, which it joins below 
Odentee, and may therefore be safely concluded to be the Assua- 
froo ; for the names of rivers are very mutable in Africa, each 
country through which they pass naturalising them to its own lan- 
guage, and thus increasing the perplexities of a geography founded 
on investigation. I could not procure any authorized account of 
the northward course of this river, the best opportunities had 
escaped ine when I heard of it. 
Five journies N. E. from Yahndi is the smaller kingdom of 
Gamba, the birth place of Baba the chief Moor at Coomassie, and 
the boundary of the Ashantee authority, though its influence, 
through the much respected medium of Dagwumba, would extend 
to the Niger. Seven journies northward of Yngwa is the kingdom 
of Fobee: the river Koontoorooa is crossed four days from it, 
being about half a mile broad, it has an eastern and western 
branch, the former running to the Karhala, one day farther, con- 
siderably wider, and the course south-eastward. One journey 
from the river is a large mountain called Sarraka, the same distance 
from Fobee, the capital of the kingdom. Lakoo, Lamma, Karhala, 
and Koomada are the next largest towns. Five journies north- 
ward is an independent kingdom called Chouoocha. The position 
of Fobee is checked by Goorooma, being 15 journies from it, (a 
kingdom to be noticed presently in the direct northern route from 
Yahndi to Houssa,) and Kawerree only nine, doubtless Gayree, a 
kingdom in the route of the Moors from Coomassie to Jinnie. 
The numerals of Fobee are 
One - - Koroom. 
Two » Nalay. 
Three - Poompevarra. 
