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terminated, but was always told that 
it communicated with the Nile. Its 
course, according to some, was in a 
lengthened direction southerly, run¬ 
ning far into the interior of Hahesheh, 
or Abyssinia. 
Wadad is watered by a number of 
rivers that fall into the Joliba. Bou- 
beker traversed this kingdom from SW. 
to NE. and reached the country of Be- 
garnffi; soon after he arrived at the 
great lake of Kouk, into which a very 
great river from the south empties it¬ 
self. The Sultan of Kouk is often at 
war with the sovereigns of Wajctae and 
Begarme. 
In about two months from his leav¬ 
ing Kassina, he had reached the moun¬ 
tains of Four, but noticed no great 
town between these and Bornou. From 
the country of Four, he passed on, east¬ 
erly, to that of Kordofan, inhabited 
only by Arabs. After coasting for two 
or three days the western bank of the 
Nile, he crossed that river opposite 
Tjondi, a pretty considerable town, 
whence he entered into the country of 
Barbara, where he found the inhabitants 
addicted to tillage, and not unlike the 
Foulles in features and complexion : 
they are subject to certain Aral* tribes. 
From Tjondi, in fifteen days, he came 
to Suakern on the Arabic Gulph, and 
from that town embarked in a vessel 
for Djiddah, the port of Mecca, making 
about fourteen months since his depar¬ 
ture from Seno-Palel. 
Our pilgrim after his devotions at 
Mecca, repaired to Medina, Jerusalem, 
Acre, Cairo and Alexandria. In this 
last city, he remained a long time, and 
sailed afterwards for Algiers, where he 
spent several years. He at length re¬ 
turned to Fouta Toro, through Telern- 
san or Tremecen, Fez, Mequinez, Mo¬ 
rocco, Wadimoux, the Great Desart, 
and the country of the Bracknas 
Moors. 
Boubeker’s long residence in Egypt 
and Barbary, made him forget a num¬ 
ber of particulars, which though un¬ 
important to himself, would have been 
highly interesting to Europeans. The 
foreign voyager taken prisoner in 
Houssa, might perhaps have been 
Frederick Hornemann, sent by the 
African Association, in 1808; but ad¬ 
mitting the supposition, his fate will 
be no less uncertain. 
The editor subjoins some supplemen¬ 
tary notices, derived, he says, not from 
books, for lie found none of any service, 
but furnished by his memory. 
The Kingdom of Cagnaga is that 
which Father Labat designates as Goy- 
aga, and Mungo Park as Ivaiaaka. 
Djarra is the city which Delisle calls 
Yara, and M. Park, Farra. This 
name, however, is but little known to 
the Moors that I have consulted, who 
in general call it Bagnall, that of the 
country whereof it is the chief place. 
The custom of thus naming the capital 
cities in Africa appears to be general. 
Major Rennel thinks that Tichit or 
Tishit, (as the English write it) is the 
same place as Tgazza, which, according 
to Padamosta and Leo Africanus, sup¬ 
plied Tombut with salt. Some Moorish 
sheiks have made mention to me of a 
town called Tedjagdja, near Waden or 
Hoden in the maps, where a trade in 
salt is carried on ; this I conceive may 
be the same as Tegarra. The Moors 
write the name of the Niger, Djolba, 
and not Djaliba, as the negroes do. The 
name of Tombooktoo is frequently 
written Timboukfou and Tomboukt. 
Boubeker’s position of the kingdom 
ot Bornou exactly agrees with the ac¬ 
count given of it by M. Hornemann, 
as he had it from a Twarik. The river 
from the south that falls into the lake 
of Kouk, seems to me to be the Misse- 
lad of Mr. Brown. The mountainous 
country of Four is evidently Dar-Four. 
Tjondi is the Shandi or Ilandi of the 
maps. The Arab writers make men¬ 
tion of a country called Barbara; the 
inhabitants have been noticed by Euro¬ 
peans, by the name of Barbarins and 
Barbfras. Their complexion is a red¬ 
dish black. 
I have frequently interrogated Bou- 
beker as to different towns and coun¬ 
tries mentioned by the Arabian geogra¬ 
phers and modern Voyagers. He has 
spoken of Waucarah, a name but little 
different from Wakoro, and places it 
south of Bornou. He describes it as a 
country inundated by Joliba, as Egypt 
is by the Nile: it yields abundance of 
gold. He had heard speak of the king¬ 
dom of Kano, of Gueburgh (Cano aiid 
Guber) but does not recollect their po¬ 
sition. As to the word Takzour, he 
has positively affirmed that it denotes 
the whole country of the blacks in va¬ 
rious negro languages, like the word 
Soudan in Arabic. 
He often heard mention of the 
Wechabites in Arabia, but recollects 
little 
