Note (return) — SPECIMENS
Reading edition
If this be so, the junction of the Nile el Abeed, of Timbuctoo, and the Bahar el Aheäd of Donga 251, (or more properly the Bahar el Abeed,) is established, and the water communication between Timbuctoo and Cairo is proved; admitting, however, that the Negroes reported by me to have performed the 252 voyage by water, took their boat or canoe ashore, to ascend the cataracts, in the country between Wangara and Donga.