Note 52 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.

Silla سلي, سيلي, and سلا. El Bekrí mentions cotton as one of the chief productions of this country; no house, he says, was without its cotton tree. Leo, in like manner, says (pt. VII. c. 3), that cotton was the staple merchandise of Jenni, which is but two days from Silla; and Caillié observed the general cultivation of that article in the country south-westward of Jenni (tom. II. pp. 156-167.) The people of Silla, being slave-dealers, made constant war on their pagan neighbours, of whom the nearest were the Kalembú قلنبو, a day’s journey distant. Now the district of Negroland at present characterized by the termination bú, is that contiguous to the modern Silla towards the west, and on the northern side of the river. There we find Modiboo, Doolinkeaboo, Fanimboo, &c., within a small compass. “From Tarankat̤i ترنْقَةِ (MS. B.M. fol. 111 r), near Silla, the inhabited country (says our author) extends to Záfḳú زافقو” which name M. Quatremère reads Afnou (Not. et Extr. p. 641). But if we suppose that a Nún ﻨ is here mistaken for the Maghrebí Kaf ڧ, the two readings will be reconciled in Zafnú, the Jafnoo of our maps, which is a very likely limit to our author’s exact information. To point out unequivocally the direction in which his narrative led him, he adds, that “the country continues populous to the ocean.”