Note a — APPENDIX. No. II.

I translate this in the singular, yet afterwards, there seems a confusion with the plural.” Sir Wm. This act, which appears very improbable, and which I never heard of in the oral accounts which I received whilst in Coomassie, (Diary, p. 91) if it was committed, must have been by Lieut. Martyn, recollecting the difference of his and Mr. Park’s dispositions, and Amadi Fatouma’s anecdote of the former wishing to kill him for preventing him from firing any more at the people of the King Gotoijege, I should observe here, that Amadi Fatouma’s Poul nation can be no other than the Fillani, (p. 207) the Fullan of Ben Ali, for though it has been translated Poul, there is no p in the Arabic, and the Moors in Ashantee always wrote f for the negro p, as fon for pon. As Col. Maxwell merely observes in his letter, that “Isaaco’s Arabic Journal was translated into English, by a person resident in Senegal, who probably had but an ordinary or colloquial knowledge of Arabic, it is to be regretted that the original was not transmitted with it, as a more careful perusal of it by Sir William Ouseley or some Arabic scholar in England, would probably reconcile the two accounts, at least in the names of places, if not in the circumstances, more than they can be from the translation remitted.