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Wola, leave little doubt of its being the Kulla or Quolla; though 
I am not clear that they said there was a country of the name of 
the river, nor did I recognize the name of any of the countries I 
had before heard of, as being in its neighbourhood. With those 
on the northern banks of this large river they did not profess to 
be acquainted, and those on the southern may be intermediate 
between the Moohnda and Ogooawai routes, which diverge from 
Empoongwa,the former northward, the latter north-eastward. Forty 
journies from the Empoongwa frontier to the Bahr Kulla agree 
very well with the distance. A strong argument, in addition to 
the above, for the Wola and the Quolla being the same river, (re- 
collecting my description of the Paamways, and all the nations on 
the line of the Moohnda, as cannibals,) is suggested by the re- 
perusal of the following remarks of Mr. Horneman, and Mr. Hut- 
chison, already quoted in page 202 : " The Yem Yems, canni- 
bals, are south of Kano, ten days,"' which agrees very well with 
the lowered course of the Niger, which I have been obliged to lay 
down. " It is to the King of Quallowliffa that the country in 
which Canna, Dal!, and Yum Yum, where cannibals are, is sub- 
ject/' It is true, that the character only, and not the names of 
the nations visited from Empoongwa, can be identified with Mr. 
Hutchison's Canna, Dall, and Yum Yum ; but the Moorish pronun- 
ciation, or writing of negro names, especially those only known 
to them by report, is very incorrect and capricious. To Mr. Hor- 
neman, they were called Yem Yems; to Mr. Hutchison, Yum 
Yums, and sometimes Jum Jums. The names Bapoonoo, Oko- 
bella, Banginniga, Gonbamba, and Asango, may possibly be iden- 
tified hereafter amongst the countries approximating to the Wola. 
We will return to Adjoomba, where the Ogooawai divides itself ; 
the smaller arm called Assazee runs to Cape Lopez, which is in 
the kingdom of Oroongoo ; the monarch, Ggoola, from his power 
