1st day. Samba-sandíggi, a wádí in the wilderness with Arab settlers.
2nd. Dáwodá, a wádí.
3rd. Nakhéle, settlement of Sídi Makhmúd of the Zenágha.
4th. Dundumúlli; few settlers.
5th. Sélefél, village of Fúlbe.
6th. Tektáket, all along the valley Mesíla, or Meshíla, which runs to
the Senegal.
7th. Yóra, village or town of Fúlbe, Aswánek, and Arabs, dwelling
together.
8th. Abólli, a hamlet of Arabs, Welád Wési, and Fullán Rungábe, under
the chiefs ʿOmár Weled Bú-Séfi. Wádi Mangol. Few mountains.
9th. Swéna, a hamlet of Fúlbe with a few Arabs.
10th. Nahál; one day E. of the town Butti.
11th. Báyajám, a small hamlet of Fúlbe Rungábe and Hel Módin Alla.
12th. Tíshi, small hamlet.
13th. Melge, large village inhabited by Fúlbe and Hel Módin Alla.
14th. Village of Chermo-Makkam, who died some time before, when his son
Baidal Chermo succeeded him.
15th. Dár Saláme, now Aswánek, formerly Hel Módin Alla.
16th. Kídibíllo, small hamlet. Aswánek.
17th. Nénechó. Aswánek.
18th. Waigílle, a middle-sized place of Aswánek. Country level, small
hills, many trees, especially the kuddi. Always along the valley Mangol
or Mesíla.
19th. Kábu, large place of Aswánek, on the point where the Mesíla joins
the Senegal.
20th. Láni, considerable place of Aswánek, on the S. side of the river
which you cross.
21st. Kotéra, a village of Aswánek, close to Senegal.
22nd. Gúchubel (Gútubé of the French), the point where the Falémé joins
the Senegal. On the opposite side lies Yogúnturó.
23rd. Arúndu, a village of Aswánek, having crossed the Falémé.
24th. Yáferé, on the Senegal.
25th. Golme, Aswánek under Bundu.
26th. Guri ’l haire, Aswánek.
27th. Bakel.
Even beyond Bakel, towards Kahaide, the seats of the Aswánek, Cheddo, or
Wákoré extend as far as the isolated mountain Waunde, which lies on the
N.E. shore, and that is evidently the reason of this tract on the N.
bank of the Senegal being called Gángara, or Wángara, the country of the
Wákoré.
N.B. The routes from Wadán and Íjil to Sákiet el Hamrah, of which I have
collected an itinerary, I refrain from communicating, as they have been
in some measure superseded by Panet’s route. (Revue Coloniale, 1851.)
[Footnote 60: Caillié’s Travels to Timbuctoo, vol. ii. p. 99, et seq.
According to my information, Árawán seems to lie from Timbúktu about 15°
W. from N.]
[Footnote 61: No merchant from the north can pass Bú-Jebéha, and
certainly not Árawán, unless he be escorted by some well-known person
belonging to the tribe of the Tademékket.]
[Footnote 62: The position which I have assigned to these places in the
map which I sent home from Timbúktu, is slightly erroneous.]
[Footnote 63: De Barros, l. iii. c. viii. p. 220, Genná.—“Concorriam a
ella os póvos que lhe sao mais vizinhos: assi com os Caragolees, Fullos,
Jalofos, Azaneges, _Brabaxijs_, Tigurarijs, Luddayas.” See the
chronological tables at the end of the preceding vol., p. 604.]
[Footnote 64: I have not been able to make even a short vocabulary of
the idiom of these people. I only succeeded in making out two terms
which they use, “úmbay” (“how are you?”) and “éna” (“welcome”).]
[Footnote 65: From Dire, down the river towards Timbúktu, my informant
indicated several places which neither I myself nor Caillié have
mentioned on our passage down the river: _Búram_, a large village (Kóra,
Danga), Semsáro (Koiretágo), Lenga, all on the south side; Segalíye, on
the north side of the river; an ádabay, or hamlet, belonging to Búram,
Éluwa, on an island; Hendibángo.]
[Footnote 66: Edinburgh Philological Journal, vol. iv. p. 35, et seq.
There is no such district hereabouts as “El Sharray;” but I have not the
slightest doubt that this name is nothing but a corruption of the term
“e’ sherk,” with which the Moors of that region indicate the south.
There are some inaccuracies in Scott’s account which might cause
suspicion of his sincerity; and among these is the circumstance, that he
mentions as living on the lake the Moorish tribes of the Érgebát and
Sekarna, both of which live in the northern districts. But it is very
remarkable that he should call that tomb by the name of “Saídna
Mohammed.”]
[Footnote 67: I here add a short itinerary from Yówaru to Yá-saláme:—
1st day. Hasi Jollúb, with a settlement of Zuwaye Sombúnne.
2nd. A well.
3rd. Yá-saláme, a place of about the same size as Yówaru, on a backwater
at a considerable distance from the chief river. From Basikúnnu to Yá-
saláme, four days.]
[Footnote 68: On the south-eastern branch up to Jenni or Jenne (this is
the Aswánek form), or Zenne (Zinne as the Songhay call it), or Jinne
(the Bámbara form), lie the following towns and villages:—Bólay, a ksar
or koira, Sildoy, Konne, Kóme, Isáka, or Móbti, Kúna, Sofára,
Zinne.—Sofára, which lies halfway between Hamda-Alláhi and Jenni or
Zinne, has a market every Wednesday and Thursday. The eastern side of
Sofára is skirted by a small branch or creek of the Niger called
Golónno, and on the eastern bank of the latter lies a village called
Góñima.]
[Footnote 69: These particulars I obtained after having finished my
manuscript map in Timbúktu.]
[Footnote 70: El Bekrí, p. 160.]
[Footnote 71: I here cannot omit to express my admiration of Mr.
Cooley’s critical judgment, who, from the incomplete materials which he
at the time possessed, arrived at the same conclusion in his researches
on the Negroland of the Arabs. See especially p. 43.]
[Footnote 72: Journal of Leipsic Oriental Society, vol. ix. p. 527.]
[Footnote 73: Raffenel’s Second Voyage, vol. i. p. 223. seq.]
[Footnote 74: It would seem, from many indications, that this informant
describes the country in the more flourishing state which it enjoyed
some years previously to my visit to Negroland.]
[Footnote 75: Venture, Vocabulaire Berbère, ed. Jaubert, Appendix, p.
225.]
[Footnote 76: N.B. This itinerary was not made use of for the map of the
western part of the desert, which I sent home from Timbúktu.]
[Footnote 77: On my MS. map I placed Agán wrong, giving it an
intermediate position between Aftót and Asába.]
[Footnote 78: An interesting account of this district is given in
Hodgson’s “Notes on North Africa,” p. 70, from the information of a
slave in the United States.]