district many journeys south of the _Neel Assudan_. Mr. Park's
testimony is also called in support of this opinion, but they are
both erroneous. Wangara is as well known in Africa to be east of
Timbuqtoo, as in England York is known to be North of of London.

Oongooroo is a barbarous Negro corruption of Wangara; therefore,
this note, if suffered to pass through the press unnoticed, would
be calculated to confuse, not to elucidate, African geography;
neither can it be called, according to Mr. Horneman's orthography,
Ungura: the name is _Wangara_ which cannot be converted accurately
into any word _but_ Wangara. Ungura Oongooroo, &c. are corruptions
of the proper name, originating in an imperfect, and but an oral
knowledge of the African Arabic.

Page 210. I apprehend the reason why Wassenah was not known at
Ashantee by the traders, is because it was out of their trading
track. I have no doubt of the existence of Wassenah or Massenah
(for when the names of African towns and countries are recorded, we
should not be particular about a letter or two, when we find so
many orthographical variations are made by different authors);
neither is there any reason (that I know of) to doubt the
491 description of Wassenah given in Riley's Narrative; but it is not
extraordinary, that this place should be unknown at Ashantee, if
there were no commerce or communication between these countries
respectively; it is certain, that the Africans neither know, seek,
or care, for places or countries with which they have no trade or
communication.

It appears well deserving of observation (for the purpose of
rendering Arabic names intelligible to future African travellers),
that Mr. Bowdich has demonstrated that, what is called in our maps,
1. Bambarra, 2. Gimbala, 3. Sego, 4. Berghoo, 5. Begarmee, being
written in the Arabic language, with the guttural letter _grain_,
would be quite unintelligible, if pronounced to an African _as they
are written_ by our letters, the nearest approximation to the
Arabic words would be as follows, taking _Gr_ for the nearest
similitude that our alphabet affords to the guttural letter [Arabic]
_grain_.

Correct Pronunciation. African Orthography. Called in the Maps.

1. Banbug'r [Arabic] Bambara.

2. Grim