described
as dividing in two large streams.--_Vide_ "Bowdich's Account of a
Mission to Ashantee," p. 187.

The Lake Dibber is called in the proceedings of the African
Association Dibbie, but the proper appellation is _El Bahar Tibber,
_or_ El Bahar Dehebbie_. The Bahar Tibber signifies the sea of gold
475 dust; the _Bahar Dehebbie_ signifies the sea or water abounding in
gold. Jinnee, which is on or near the shore of this lake, (I call
it a lake because it is fresh water,) abounds in gold, and is
renowned throughout Africa for the ingenuity of its artificers in
that metal, insomuch that they acknowledge the superiority of
Europeans in all arts except that of gold work. There are some
specimens of Jinnee gold trinkets, very correctly delineated in the
recent interesting work of "Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence's
Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt to England," p. 496.

Page 187, "Yahoodie, a place of great trade."

This place is reported to be inhabited by one of the lost tribes of
Israel, possibly an emigration from the tribe of Judah. Yahooda, in
African Arabic, signifies Judah. Yahoodee signifies Jew. It is not
impossible, that many of the lost tribes of Israel may be found
dispersed in the interior regions of Africa, when we shall become
better acquainted with that Continent; it is certain, that some of
the nations that possessed the country eastward of Palestine when
the Israelites were a favoured nation, have emigrated to Africa.

An emigration of the Amorites[276] are now in possession of the
declivity of the Atlas Mountains, westward of the sanctuary[277] of
Muley Driss, and in the neighbourhood of the ruins of Pharaoh; they
476 live in encampments, consisting of two, three, or four tents each:
they resemble the Arabs of the Desert in their predatory
excursions. I speak from practical knowledge, having twice
travelled through their country, and visited their encampments.

[Footnote 276: They are called _Ite-amor_, Amorite.]

[Footnote 277: _Vide_ Jackson's Account of Marocco, chap. viii.
enlarged edition.]

Page 189. "Mr. Beaufoy's Moor says, that below Ghinea is the sea
into which the river of Timbuctoo discharges itself."

This might have been understood to signify the Sea of Sudan, if the
Moor had not said