[301]In the Western Sahara north of the road from Arguin to Wadan, and probably near Sabha Jail.
[302]North-west of Timbuctoo on the road to Wadan.
[303]Also spelt Gago, near the north-west corner of the great Niger Bend. I have called it Gao throughout, as in the ancient and uncertain spellings it was often confused with Kuka on Lake Chad.
[304]Leo, III. p. 799.
[305]About Lat. 17° N., not to be confused with the town of Agades in Air.
[306]Leo: on pages 798 and 799.
[307]“Igidi” is more a term for a type of desert country than a true proper name. There are other Igidis in North Africa.
[308]Compare also a name of similar type, the place called Siggedim, in about Lat. 20° on the road between Kawar and the Fezzan.
[309]Compare Barth’s corruption of the name Gamram in Damergu to Gumrek. Cf. [Chap. II.]
[310]The map on [p. 331] gives a more accurate idea than the one in the first volume of the Hakluyt Society’s publication.