ON AFRICA. 485 is incontestably an Arabian proper name ; and it would be considered presumption in a Negress unconverted to Muselmism, to assume the name of Fatima. She must, therefore, have been necessarily a Mooress, or a converted Negress ; the name has nothing to do with a numeral, as Mr. Bowdich suggests, and above all not with the numeral Jive, for that is a number ominous of evil in Africa, and as such, would never have been bestowed as a name on a beloved wife.

Page 196. Note of W. Hutchison, " The four greatest monarchs known on the banks of the Quolla, are Baharnoo, Santambool, Malisif miel, and Malla, or Mallowa.'* Baharnoo should be written Ber Nok; i. e. the country of Noah the patriarch; it is called in the maps Bernoo, and the whole passage is calculated greatly to confuse African geography. The information is unquestionably derived from Negro authority, and that not of the most authentic kind. Santambool is the Negro corruption of Strambool, which is the Arabic name for Constantinople : Malisimiel is the Negro corruption of Muley Ismael. ' The first signifies the empire of Constantinople ; tlie second signifies the empire of Muley Ismael, who was emperor of Marocco in the early part of the 18th century, and whose authority was acknowledged at Timbuctoo, where he maintained a ' See Jackson's Marocco, chap. xiii. p. 295, and note, p. 296.

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