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The Negroland of the Arabs examined and explained

Note 29 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.

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Yentesír ينْتسِير, MS. B.M.; Belis, Not. et Extr.—Moddúken مُدُّوكَن MS. B.M.; Merouken, Not. et Extr. From the village of Moddúken, which belonged to the Zenágah, to the city of Ghánah مَدَينة غَانة was a journey of only four days. But for Ghánah in this place M. Quatremère proposes reading Akka, عاقه, being perplexed by the faultiness of his MS. which seems to conduct beyond Ghánah to the country of the Lumtúnah. The MS. B.M. p. 105 v, clears up the difficulty by these words; “and from the wells before mentioned, (viz. the wells of El Ḥammálín and Nálelli,) the water is carried a four days’ journey to Mount Aízal or Izal ايزَلْ in the desert,” &c. Thus the road to the desert (the Lumtúnah not being named in this passage) does not begin from Ghánah, but from “the before-mentioned wells.” Jebel Aízal may be suspected of being another form of Adarérén Wazzél.

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