At Badoo, near Sibikillin ---- ---- 14 56 Near the _Bafing_ ---- ---- ---- 16 30 At Marraboo on the Niger ---- ---- 16 36 At Yamina ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 17 11 At Sansanding ---- ---- ---- ---- 17 40 In case any one should be inclined to doubt the accuracy of the latitudes taken by the back observation with Troughton's pocket sextant; I think it proper to mention that I have observed at Sansanding alternately with the _horizon of the river_, and the _back observation_ in water and the artificial horizon; and never found them to vary more than four minutes, but generally much nearer. A fac-simile sketch of the course of the Niger, made by an old Somonie, who had been seven times at Tombuctoo, and is now going the eighth. _Ba Nimma_ rises in the Kong mountains South of Marraboo; it passes one day's journey South of Sego; and having received a branch from Miniana, empties itself into the lake Dibbie. It is not quite half so large as the Niger. I have not the least doubt of the truth of this, having heard it from so many people. We shall not see Jinnie in going to Tombuctoo. _Route from Sego to Miniana._ From Sego in one day, Deena, across the Ba Nimma in canoes, and halt on the south side; thence in one day, Dahmaroo, Sijirri, Neaguana, Mullo Soo, Billi Soo; In all seven days. The inhabitants of Miniana eat their enemies, and strangers, if they die in the country. They eat the flesh of horses; but such is their veneration for the cow that she is never killed; when she dies, they eat the flesh. Miniana is hilly; all the grains are cultivated the same as in Bambarra. _Route from Sego to Badoo_. From Sego in one day. Koogoo, N. goi, [Footnote: Thus written in Park's MS.] Jeenna, Doo-Wassoo. Choyna, Guandoo on the banks of the Badingfing, a small river from Miniana. Cheraboo, Baboo, Blendoo, Koolokoo, Kay-a, Wangeera, Jibbi, Nemansana, Kooli, Chemosoo, N. jeera, Chekora, Koonteela, Doomba, Chongi, Teng: gera, a great Juli town; a Juli is called in Baedoo, Kirko Bimba; Teeleemagee, Soomasoo, Koorinsoo, Jondoo; Juli town, Sala, N. Kannoo, Juli town. The whole of the foregoing places are in Bambarra. Totti, a town in Baedoo. Baedoo, the capital. The Julis are people who understand the language of Baedoo and Miniana, and are employed as interpreters and brokers by the salt merchants. One month's travel South of Baedoo through the kingdom of Gotto, will bring the traveller to the country of the Christians, who have their houses on the banks of the _Ba Sea feena_; this water they represent as being imcomparably larger than the lake Dibbie, and that the water sometimes flows one way, sometimes another. There are no Shea trees in Kong or Gotto, and very few in Baedoo. ISAACO'S JOURNAL. VOL. II. _Government House Sierra Leone, 10th December, 1811._ "MY LORD,