Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797

by Mungo Park

[98]The day’s journey of Edrisi is taken at 18 Arabic miles, or about 19 G. in direct distance. Strictly speaking, it should be 19,06, as 56⅔ Arabic miles are equal to a degree.

[99]Mr. Beaufoy’s MSS.

[100]Edrisi, p. 39.

[101]Mr. Beaufoy’s MSS.

[102]Af. Assoc. 1793, p. 29.

[103]Af. Assoc. 1790, Q. p. 88; O. p. 133.

[104]Af. Assoc. 1793, page 29, et seq.

[105]Edrisi, p. 39.

[106]By some oversight, Ghana is placed in the map, too far to the east, by 8 minutes of longitude.

[107]I cannot learn with any degree of certainty, from whence the name Guinea, applied to the SW coast of Africa, is derived. Some have supposed it to be from the capital or country of the superior monarch, in the interior of the continent; but it is certain that the same name is applied by Sanuto (in 1588) to the coast between the river Gambia and Cape Mesurada. But Sanuto may have taken the idea from Leo, who was in an error with respect to the matter of Guinea, at large.