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Major Rennell has laid down the kingdom of Kulla. Six journies 
thence it passed Mafeegoodoo, and 13 journies beyond, the lake 
Cadee or Caudee. This I should consider to be the Cauga of 
Edrisi, which Major Rennell has identified with the Fittri of Mr. 
Brown, for into this the second large branch of the Niger, or the 
river Garnbaroo, is said to run ; but it is considerably too mudh 
to the southward for the Cauga in Major RennelFs map, being, 
according to the accounts of the Moors, only 3 journies northward 
of the Quolla : yet Edrisi writes " besides a river of the name of 
Nile or Neel passes hy Kauga." What inclines me to think the 
Cauga may be more distant from Bornoo the capital, though not 
from the frontier of that kingdom, (15 journies being the number 
reported to me as well as to Mr. Brown) is, that the Negroes of 
that city were not so well acquainted with this lake as the Moors. 
My sketch in the map, of course, represents the sketches and 
descriptions of the natives. They described the Cadee or Caudee 
as an immense water, like a small sea, frequently overflowing the 
neighbouring country, and sometimes so convulsed as to throw up 
large quantities of fish and other contents ; meaning, in short, a 
volcanic lake. The Moors called it also the Bahr el Noa, having 
a tradition that the waters of the deluge retired to, and were 
absorbed in it. A very high mountain was spoken of, at an equal 
distance between the Caudee and the Quolla.* Twelve journies 
Yum Yum, where cannibals are, is subject." Mr. Horneman mentions Yem Yems 
cannibals south of Kane 10 days ; and the account is further confirmed in my subsequent 
geographical sketch of the interior of Gaboon. Mr. Horneman's information that the 
Niger flowed towards the Egyptian Nile through the land of the Heathens, which Mr. 
Park quoted as an argument for the Congo hypothesis, doubtless referred to these 
cannibals. 
* " A.t times the water of this lake is hot, and it boils and bubbles with a great noise, 
often overflowing the surrounding country. The bones of fish thrown up by the volcano 
are so numerous, that the Arabs mix them in the swish of their houses. There are a 
