[129] The Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, by Major Denham and C. H. Clapperton. London, 1826, page 109 of Clapperton’s journal.
[130] I perceive also the name of Jerry amongst those of the districts subject to Mohammed-Labou: (Massina, Temboctou, Jerry) does this name stand for Jenné?
[131] The comparison of these two African maps with the accounts of Isaaco and Amadi-Fatouma, Mungo Park’s guides, affords results not unworthy of attention: but I have not room to deduce them.
[132] See “Quarterly Review.” See also Réflexions sur l’état des Connaissances relatives au Cours du Dhioliba, page 27.
[133] Ibidem, page 25.
[134] See above, Vol. I, the account of his first travels.
[135] On the 8th of October he arrived in France, five months after his departure from Timbuctoo; from this time the period of his compulsory residence in Morocco must be deducted. The Geographical Society awarded to him its highest premium at its general meeting on the 26th of December 1828, only seven months after he quitted Timbuctoo.
[136] It was during the dry season that the English travellers found it to be a hundred yards wide; but it is very broad at other times.
[137] The late Malte-Brun adopted this opinion immediately after the publication of the English travels to Saccatoo.
[138] See Ephémérid. Géogr. for the year 1803.