Note 237 — POSTSCRIPT.

Clapperton (Sec. Exped. p. 232) says that the capital of Zegzeg is called Quorra. He probably means to speak of the town which he elsewhere calls Guari, but the name of which, in the native maps brought home by him, is written Ḳowárah. When he speaks of Kóra (p. 133), he appears to have in view the capital of Kotú-n-Kúra. This name is, through obvious mistake, written Kotunfauda in Bello’s map. Kotú is a name of frequent occurrence, as in Kotú-n-karafi (in the maps Cuttum Curraffee), “where there is a copper mine” (Bello in Denh. Disc. II. p. 451). Karafi means metal in general. The country named Kúra is mentioned, together with Niffi and Raka, by the Kaíd ben Yusuf (Denh. Disc. I. p. 334). The slaves Boniface and Francisco agreed in representing to M. Menézes de Drummond (Hertha, pp. 13, 14), that the Kowára rises in the centre of Houssa, and that it takes its name from the country named Kuara (Kowára), through which it flows.