ew, Woolo was king before the year 1796; therefore, if Mr. Park's
testimony be correct, Woolo must have been predecessor and
successor to Mansong; otherwise, Mr. Park was incorrect in saying
that Mansong was king of Timbuctoo in 1796, and in 1805. Adams
says, Woolo was king of Timbuctoo in 1810, and was old and
grey-headed. Riley's narrative also confirms his age and grey
hairs. With regard to my testimony, viz. that Woolo was king[285]
of Timbuctoo in 1800, I had it from two merchants of veracity, who
returned from Timbuctoo in 1800, after residing there 14 years:
they are both alive now, and reside at Fas; their names I would
mention, were I not apprehensive that it might lead to a reprimand
from the emperor, and create jealousy for having communicated
intelligence respecting the interior of the country. I should not
have entered into this detail _in confirmation of my assertion that
Woolo was king of Timbuctoo in_ 1800, if the editor of the
Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica (article Africa), had not
asserted, that I have committed an anachronism in asserting, that
he was king in that year; thereby insinuating that Park was right,
and that I was wrong.

[Footnote 285: See my Letter on the Interior of Africa, in the
Anti-Jacobin Review for January, 1818, p. 453.]

485 Page 195. The Editor of Adams's Narrative is, I apprehend,
incorrect in asserting, that the name Fatima affords no proof that
the queen, or the wife of Woolo, was a Muhamedan. Fatima is
incontestably an Arabian proper name; and it would be considered
presumption in a Negress unconverted to Muselmism, to assume the
name of Fatima. She must, therefore, have been necessarily a
Mooress, or a converted Negress; the name has nothing to do with a
numeral, as Mr. Bowdich suggests, and above all not with the
_numeral five_, for that is a number ominous of evil in Africa, and
as such, would never have been bestowed as a name on a beloved
wife.

Page 196. Note of W. Hutchison, "The four greatest monarchs known
on the banks of the Quolla, are Baharnoo, Santambool, Malisimiel,
and Malla, or Mallowa."

Baharnoo should be written _Ber Noh_; i.e. the country of Noah the
patriarch; it is called in the maps Bernoo, and the whole passage
is calculated greatly to confuse Africa