Note 47 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.

The language of El Idrísí (Rec. de Voy. V. p. 109), paints the decay of Aúdaghost: he describes it to be “a little town, deficient in water; with a scanty population and miserable trade, which consists in camels.” This is the town which modern geographers, induced by a supposed resemblance of names—though Rennell (Geogr. Illust. of Park’s Journey, in Proc. of Afr. Assoc. I. p. 501,) took the precaution to convert Aúdaghost into Agadost—have chosen to identify with Aghades, or Aghdes, which Leo Africanus (pt. VII. c. 9), writing in 1541, calls “a city built by the moderns;” while Marmol (III. fol. 24), more precise, says that it was founded 160 years before the time of his writing, or in 1438.