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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
express a lake also this river of Timbuctoo is, doubtless, the 
branch of the Niger forming the Gambaroo, and the sea below 
Ghinea, the lake Caude. In the Description de FAfrique, traduite 
du El am and, D'O Dapper, d Amsterdam, 1686", I find " Ce 
Royaume de Tombut ou Tongbutu environ h quatre lieues d'wi 
bras du Niger/' The account, to be submitted presently, that this 
branch of the Niger passing Timbuctoo is not crossed until the 
third day going from Timbuctoo to Houssa, is not an argument 
against its identity with the Zarah of Adams, or the river of Sidi 
Hamet, only two or three miles from the city ; because, giving a 
northerly course to the branch, and Houssa laying north eastward 
20 journies from Timbuctoo, as will be shewn presently, the direc- 
tion of the path would not require the river to be crossed imme- 
diately, but, evidently, not till the second or third day. 
De Barros, who considered the Senegal to be the Niger, wrote, 
that it received various names,* and was called by the Caragoles 
(Serawoolhes) Colle ; on which Mr. Murray reasonably observes, 
" this name seems readily convertible into Joli-ba, the latter 
syllable being merely an adjunct, meaning a river this I was 
also given to understand. Now, if the name Joliba had not been 
reported on the authority of Mr. Park, I might submit that Colle 
is more readily convertible into Quolla, which approximating even 
more closely to Kulla, seems to identify the Colle and Kulla under 
the common name of Quolla.-f Mr. Park in his memoir to Lord 
* I.es Senegurs le nomment Seiiedec, les Jalofes Dengueb^ les Turcorons qui sont 
plus au-dedans du pays Maje, les Saragoles qui sont plus haut Colle, et en un contree 
pluB vers rorient Zimbale : au royaume de Tombut on le nomme Y^a. Marmol, torn. 3, 
livre 8. The name Zimbale must be derived from Jimballa, by which country the river 
passes; it occurs in the route from She'go to Timbuctoo. P. 194. 
•f Kulla, in the Mallowa, if not in the Kassina language^ means child ; perhaps, allegory 
being the character of African language, the southern river may be called Quolla or 
JCulkj from being a branch only of the great river which forms it and the Gambaroo, 
