Note 151 — IBN BAṬÚṬAH’S JOURNEY.

Beldeh Múlí بلدة مُولي. The Fellátah geographer wrote sometimes Mouri (Appendix to Clapperton’s Second Journey, p. 332), sometimes (p. 340) Mouli (Múlí). He says, that the people of Núfí conquered, among other countries, “the west of Malee, or Moulee, and Abyou.” And again, that they subdued “the country of Abbi (in which we now are) and Kanbari” (Kombori). Abbi is probably the same as Abyou (or rather Abbíwa), and appears to have been near Sokkatú. In Hannah Kilham’s Specimens of Languages spoken in Sierra Leone, we find the Appah and Tapua, both related to the Aku or Yariba. The Tapua is evidently the Tappawa, or language of Núfí (called Tappa by its inhabitants), and the Appah is perhaps the language of Abbi. One of the native itineraries appended to Dupuis’ Residence in Ashantee (p. cxxix.), places Maury (Múri) next to Kábi on the west.