n geography. The information
is unquestionably derived from Negro authority, and that not of the
most authentic kind. Santambool is the Negro corruption of
_Strambool_, which is the Arabic name for Constantinople:
_Malisimiel_ is the Negro corruption of Muley Ismael.[286] The
first signifies the empire of Constantinople; the second signifies
the empire of Muley Ismael, who was emperor of Marocco in the early
part of the 18th century, and whose authority was acknowledged at
486 Timbuctoo, where he maintained a strong garrison, and held the
adjacent country in subjection, where his name is held in reverence
to this day. This being premised, it follows of course, that one of
these four great monarchies here alluded to, viz. that of
Santambool is certainly not on the Quolla, unless the Quolla be
considered the same river with the Egyptian Nile, and that Egypt be
considered a part of the empire of Santambool; then, and then only,
can it be said, that the empire of Santambool is situated on the
Quolla.

[Footnote 286: See Jackson's Marocco, chap. xiii. p. 295, and
note, p. 296.]

Page 198. Two large lakes were described close to the northward of
Houssa; one called Balahar Sudan, and the other Girrigi Maragasee;
the first of these names is a Negro corruption, or an European
corruption of the term _Bahar Sudan_[287]; the other is a Negro
name of another, if not of the same lake or sea. The situation of
the _Bahar Sudan_ is described by me in the 13th chapter, in my
account of Marocco, to be fifteen journeys east of Timbuctoo, and
the _Neel El Abeed_ passes through it. I had this information from
no less than seven Moorish merchants of intelligence and veracity;
the same is confirmed by Ali Bey[288], the Shereef Imhammed, Park,
and Dr. Seitzen; all these authorities must therefore fall to the
487 ground if Mr. Bowdich's report is to overturn these testimonies,
which has placed it three degrees of latitude north of the _Neel El
Abeed_, or [289]_Neel Assudan_, and in the Sahara[290],
_unconnected with any river_! I doubt if any, but a very ignorant
Pagan Negro (for the Muhamedan Negroes are more intelligent), would
have given the Sea of Sudan this novel situation.

[Footnote 287: See Jackson's Marocco, chap. xiii.]

[Footnote 288: For an