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the greatest thej know. The King's name is Adooraoo, the capital 
extensive, and kept particularly clean : their law forbids any na- 
tive of Okandee to be sold as a slave. None of the nations on 
the Ogooawai are cannibals. On the eastern confines of Okandee 
this river is described to join or flow from the Wola. The countries 
between the Moohnda and Ogooawai, are called Sappalah, Koo- 
makaimalong, and Okaykay, and described as vast extents of 
savannah. Deeha was spoken of as a large country in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Wola. I could not make these interior natives, 
or the people of Gaboon, understand what I meant by a Moor ; 
there are none but pagan negroes throughout. The slaves recently 
arrived viewed me with affright ; they said none in their country 
would beheve there were white men. 
I could hear of no great controlling kingdom, like Ashantee, in 
these parts of the interior, nor do I think any such exists eastward of 
Yarriba, or other than numerous small states, as far behind Dag- 
wumba and its neighbours in civihzation, as they are behind Euro- 
peans: The name,* situation, magnitude, and course of the 
* W5la is probably the Empoongwa corruption of the original name QuoUa or Kulla, 
for, presuming that name to be given to it in the Mallowa or Houssa covmtry,* to denote 
its being a branch or arm of the great river, dividing into it and the Gambaroo after 
leaving the lake Dibbir, (Kulla being child in the Mallowa,) it doubtless retains the same 
name in the country known at Gaboon ; not only because Mr. Brown first reported the 
river Kulla {Bahr Kulla) and the kingdom {TDar Kulla) to be situated thereabouts, but 
because from the following observation of Mr. Hutchison's, received since I wrote my 
geographical chapter, it appears, that the language of the kingdom which bears the name 
of the river, is at least a dialect of the Mallowa language. " I send you the numerals of 
Quolla hffa, as given me by the servant boy I have got lately, who comes from that 
country, which is near the cannibals :"" see Appendix, Language. 
* The Jenne Moers however called it Quolla, which inclined me at first to derive its 
name from Killi, the numeral one in the Bambarra, as if to denote it the first or greatest 
river ; as Yahndi, the name of the capital of Dagwumba, implies its pre-eminence ; 
Yahndi being one in the language of the country. 
