EARLIEST EXPLORERS. 
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of all opportunity of complete observation, lie fell into 
the opposite error, since prevalent in Northern Africa, 
and identified it with the Nile. He supposed it to flow 
by Timbuctoo, Kakaw (Kuku ?), Yuwi (seemingly the 
TIMBUCTOO, FROM AN OLD PRINT. 
Yeon or river of Bornon), and then by Nubia to 
Egypt. 
From Mali our traveller turned northward to Timbuc¬ 
too. This city was then subject to the former, governed 
by a negro viceroy, and far from possessing the celebrity 
and importance which it has since attained. The town 
is described as being chiefly peopled by merchants from 
Latham; but what particular country that was, it 
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