Note 55 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.
Reading edition
Macrízí, in Hamaker’s Specimen Catalogi Cod. Or. MSS. Academiæ Lugd. Bat. pp. 207, 9. In the passage in question M. Hamaker reads Taoumcah تاومكه, instead of which it is an obvious correction to restore Tádmekkah تادمكه. If we increase forty in the ratio of thirty to fifty, the numbers by which our authors respectively measure the distance between Ghánah and Tádmekkah, we shall have sixty-six days for the distance of the latter place from the Tajúah, according to El Bekrí’s scale. The Tajúah or Tajuwín of the Arabs, are the people whom Browne calls Dageou (Travels in Africa, p. 325), and who once ruled Darfur.