But how ambiguous soever the subject of the _western_ streams, between the head of the White River and Wangara, may be, the waters that flow from the southern and western borders of Darfoor, are clearly known to run to the north-west, and to form a large lake; proving a hollow space to exist, in the quarter, north-west of Darfoor; and little more than 160 miles eastward of Wangara.[53] Whether this hollow be a continuation of that which receives the waters of the Niger, and forms a part of them into lakes, in Wangara, remains to be discovered. It is, however, in proof, that Edrisi believed the fact, by his describing a water communication the whole way. I now proceed to describe the course of these waters, that flow from the quarter of Darfoor, towards the north-west. Mr. Browne was informed, (page 449,) that on the south of Darfoor, and between that country and the source of the White River, the waters formed a considerable river, named _Misselâd_. This he traces on his map at page 180, and in the routes given in his Appendix, p. 449, 464, 468, towards the NNW and NW, to a point above the parallel of 15 degrees north (_i. e._ through near 400 G. miles of course); but he is silent, otherwise than by implication, respecting its future course. But of a second river (the _Batta_) whose course lies _between_ the Misselâd and Darfoor, and very near to the former, he says, that it flows from the _south_, and then, deviating to the _west_, it falls into the _Bahr-el-Fittré_. (P. 464). It remains to be added, that, following the western road from Wara to Bagherme (in his Appendix, p. 464, 465), we come to the Bahr Fittré itself: but without any notices respecting the crossing of the Misselâd river, by the way. This matter, however, will be made clearer, presently, by the aid of Horneman and Edrisi. Mr. Browne continues to say, (p. 465,) that “the people on the banks of the Bahr Fittré use little boats, for the purpose of passing from one place to another, on _the river_.” The word _Bahr_ indicating equally a lake or a river, is here understood for the _latter_, by Mr. Browne; but we learn from Mr. Horneman, that the dominions of the sultan of _Fiddri_, (as he writes it,) are situated round a large fresh-water lake, which bears the same name: and that, into this lake flows _a river which comes from Darfoor_; and whose banks are very rich in sugar-canes. (See above, p. 115.)