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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
Six - - Seddah - Sheedab. 
Seven - Becquay - Bookai. 
Eight - - Tacquass - Takoos. 
Nine - - Tarra - Tarrah. 
Ten - - Gwoma - Goamah. 
Two large lakes were described close to the northward of 
Houssa, one called Balahar Soudan, and the other Girrigi Marra- 
gasee. Calculating the 20 journies from Timbuctoo at 18 rnilea 
each, supposing two-thirds to be made good on the horizontal 
distance (equal to 212 g. miles) and the course N. E., I have 
placed Houssa, 18° 59' N. and 3° 59' E. This agrees pretty well 
with the account of its being 17 journies from the Niger, or Qiiollaj 
which give 306 B. miles, and the horizontal distance 176 g. miles. 
Houssa has hitherto been laid down about 2 journies N. of the 
Niger. I have an impression that the city of Houssa will be found 
to lay about E. N. E. of Timbuctoo, of course nearer the Gambaroo, 
which runs through its dominions, and thus account for the reports 
of its being situated upon the Niger. Leo certainly meant Mallowa 
and the Gambaroo, when he wrote, " Melli regio quae extendit se 
ad flumen quoddam quod ex Nilo (i. e. Nigro) effluit trecenta 
millia passuum,"' adding, " regnum opulentissimum, raaxim^ 
artificum et mercatorum copia, frequentia templa, sacerdotes et 
populus qui Nigritas omnes civilitate antecedunt which they 
certainly appear to do : see a few of their articles for the British 
Museum. May not the Maurali of Ptolemy be the Melli of Leo, 
and the modern Mallowa or Marrowa? his large adjunct to the 
Niger to the south indicates the two rivers. Major Rennell seems 
to have expected the present discovery, when he writes (comment- 
ing on Mr. Park's report that Houssa was 30 journies by land from 
Tombuctoo, and 45 by water) Possibly it may be that Houssa 
js situated on a different river from that which passes by Tombuctoo 
