XIII. Upper Nile Region and West Africa

Mountains

333 M^o. Bardtion(?): Bardetus Mons in Ethiopia Interior, Ptol. (IV, 8: 6 (FA15)).

334 M^o. Lune docho | nasitur nillo (Mountains of the Moon from which the Nile rises): According to a long legend on CE these mountains are called “Gibel Camar by the Saracens, which means Mountains of the Moon in our tongue”; they are so high that although they lie on the equator both poles may be seen from them. The famous Mountains of the Moon were first mentioned by Ptolemy (IV, 8: 3); see also Kret., CE. 91-92.

335 M^o. capis: Caphas Mons in Libya Interior, Ptol. (IV, 6: 9 (FA15)); see PW, x, 1892.

336 M^o. deo ue | chulum(?): ?Deorum Currus Mons in Libya Interior, Ptol. (IV, 6:9 (FA15)); farthest point south on W coast of Africa reached by Hanno;=Mt. Sagres in Sierra Leone (Vivien de St. Martin, 394-396);=Cameroons Mountain (see articles by J. de Hart in Journ. African Soc., xxv, 1926, 264-277 (noted in Geogr. Rev., xvi, 1926, 661-662), and by R. Hennig in Geogr. Zeitschr., xxxiii, 1927, 378-392).

Island

337 y^a. de prenje: ?Insula Palola, Carignano, Piz. (Fischer, 141);=?

Rivers, Lake, Seacoast

338 The upper course of the Nile with the great lake and its tributaries rising in the Mountains of the Moon ([334]) corresponds essentially to CE (Kret., CE, 89-91); CE, however, shows a subterranean passage of the river W of Meroe. On ancient and medieval theories regarding the course of the Nile, see Simar, passim; Langenmaier, 47-48; Wright, Lore, 304-306. See also [312], [334].

339 The bay with the red, cross-shaped island is represented on CE by an island in the delta of the West-African river.

Desert

340 mare | arenoxe (Sandy Sea): On CE there are two legends indicating sandy areas in West Africa (Kret., CE, 96).

Edifices

(A) North of Nile-Senegal

341 R^o doga|n .(?): ?Organa, CA; Rey dOrgana, CE;=empire of Ghana or Kanem (La R., i, 136).

342 R^o.....(?): =?

343 almesia: Almesia, CA;=Mzab (La R., i, 136).

344 ma .. (?): =?

(B) South of Nile-Senegal

345-349 Illeg.

350 R^o m...|nel(?): =?.

351 Illeg.

Place Names

(A) Between Mt. Bardtion and the Mountains of the Moon

352 elcor(?): Probably an Arabic name with article, el;=?

353 anesa: =?

354 elundia: see [352];=?

355 dendenie: ?Dendi of Antony Malfant’s narrative of a voyage to Tuat in 1447 (La R., i, 154).

356 dris|na: =?

357 solla: Soll, CE; ?Sala, Idrisi;=?Sele, S of Timbuktu (Miller, Arab., 162).

358 burga: Burga, CE, a mountain in Gotonye, Con. (34);=?Burda, “mountain region of the Sudan E of river Shari, which flows into Lake Chad, and S of town of Kengas” (Jiménez de la Espada, 186).

359 quilan: Quilam, CE;=?

(B) North of Headwaters of the Nile

360 ganugia: ?Geugeu, CA;=Gâo (La R., i, 136).

361 geuene: Ginyia, CA; Guineua, CE;=Ghana (La R., i, 135; Kret., CE, 96-97).

362 atelas: =?

363 ansica: Anzicha, CA;=In Ziza (La R., i, 136, 138).

364 tablet: Tabelbelt, CA; Tibalbert, Con. (30);=Tabelbert (La R., i, 118).

365 artixe: =?

366 tocor: Tacort, CA;=Tuggurt (La R., i, 136). See also [368].

(C) Eastern Row of Names N of River Senegal

367 tutega: Tutega, Vilad.;=Tijikja (La R., i, 135).

368 tocor: Dupl. of [366].

369 udam: Sudan, CA;=Sudan (La R., i, 136).

370 tusont: =?

371 tagaza: Tagaza, CA;=Teghaza (La R., i, 136). See also [373].

372 getulla: Gaetulia, Ptol. (IV, 6: 15 (FA15));=desert region S of Morocco.

373 tagase: Dupl. of [371].

374 temenadis: Temenasin, CA;=?Tlemsen.

375 Regnio de belemon: Rex Belmarin, Bianco; “dynasty of Beni Marin which ruled in Fez in the thirteenth century and at Tremcen [Tlemsen] until 1407” (Simar, 295, from Santarem, iii, 368).

(D) Western Row of Names N of River Senegal

376 Fisengan: Ihsengam, Vilad.; “name now used by the negroes to designate the sandy regions on the west bank of the Senegal” (La R., i, 134).

377 uilodesci: This name is so much like that of the map-maker, Mecia de Viladestes, that one is almost tempted to believe that his signature has somehow found its way as a place name to Leardo’s map.

378 tasu: =?

379 mascarota: Mascarota, CA; Masquarota, CE;=Tamgrut (La R., i, 137).

380 agof: =?

381 dunardin: ?Tarudant, Idrisi (Miller, Arab., 177);=?Tarudant.

382 ubêda: Ubaâduch, CA;=?

383 altamar: Alamara, CA; Zichialhamara, Con. (29);=the Saghuiet el-Hamra in northern Rio d’Oro (La R., i, 134).

384 safinet(?): =?