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I will not again attempt a history of the disputed word which Barbot derives from Ginahoa, the first negro region visited by the Portuguese; others from Ghana, the modern Kano; from the Jenneh or Jinne of Mungo Park; from Jenna, a coast-town once of note, governed by an officer under the 'King' of Gambia-land, and, in fine, from the Italian Genoa. The s.s.
Sir Richard Francis Burton - To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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