A place, for instance, under the government of Hagara consists of
about twenty-five or thirty stone houses only; but at the time.of
their markets ( which :are said to be very considerable), many hundred;
men aSsemble there with their leathern tents.
SECTION III.
B eh in d these countriesdies Tombuctoo. of which I shall say nothing,
as I could not;get any. well-founded and certain accounts, for there
is little illtercouse between this region and Fezzan; however, it certainly
is the most remarkable and principal town in the interior o f
Africa.
■ Eastward from Tombuctoo lies Soudan, Haussa,or Asna; the first
is the Arabicj the second is the name used in the country, and.the
last ;is the Burnuan name. Of these three names I choose the second,
as being the most proper, and understood by the Arabs below
Soudan, and all the tend southward from Ghaden. The Burnuari
name ^means' properly only Kano and Kashna, and the country lying
eastward'from that-'región Asna, but incorrectly spoken, it compre-:
hends¡álsó:Tófñbuctoo.
.b&S'-tonyhatithe inhabitants themselves call Haussa, I had, as I
think, very certain information. One of them, a Marabut, gave me
a drawing of the situationofthe different regions bordering on each
other, WhjchT here give as I received it. .(See the Sketch opposite.)
The land within the strong line is Haussa; my black friend had
added Asben.
These regions are governed by Sultans, of whom those of Kashna