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The Negroland of the Arabs examined and explained

Note 33 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.

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Ibn Baṭúṭah travelled at the slow rate of a heavily laden caravan. Halts included, he was two months in reaching Aïwalátin, or Walata, on the southern border of the desert. His accounts of the pools of Táserahlá which shall be given hereafter, exactly correspond with El Idrísí’s description of the wells of Tíser. In Jaubert’s ‘Idrísí’ (p. 11), is the following passage: “Il y existe cependant des mares d’eau de pluie qu’on rencontre après deux, quatre, cinq ou douze journées de marche, semblables à celle du désert situé sur la route de Sedjelmasa à Ghana, et où l’on ne trouve de l’eau qu’au bout de quatorze jours de marche.” Instead of the word desert in this place, the Epitome of El Idrísí has the name Bansar بنسر, evidently for Tíser تيسر.

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