Note 222 — NEGROLAND divided into Nations.

Hají Hamed (Quart. Rev. 1820, No. 45, p. 232), among others, bears witness to the course of the Great River from the Sea of Nyffé to Egypt by Kachenah and Kano. Capt. Lyon’s informant, however (Lyon’s Trav. p. 142), traces the stream from Funda to Katagum, while Ben Yusuf, Hornemann’s son (Denham, I. p. 334), and Mohammed Miṣri (Jour. Roy. Inst. 1823, p. 5) are equally positive in making it flow through Adamawa. Much has been said of the unanimity of the natives in connecting the waters of Lake Chad with the River Chadda, but they agree only in the vague outlines of a theory, not in facts; they are unanimous in making the Kowára flow into the Chad, and not the Chad into the Kowára.