Wangara

Parima (a land as unknown as Wangara and Dar-Saley, in Africa), a band of twenty leagues broad has been travelled over from north to south along the banks of the Rio Carony and the Rio Branco in the longitude of sixty-three degrees.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

(a land as unknown as Wangara and Dar – Saley, in Africa), a band of twenty leagues broad has been travelled over from north to south along the banks of the Rio Carony and the Rio Branco in the longitude of sixty-three degrees.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Maps place "Wangara" to the north-west of Dahome, where the natives utterly ignore the name.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Nyffe, and Kashna, &c. to the kingdom of Wangara, being a direct distance of about one thousand four hundred miles from the place of embarkation.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

In a treatise written by Major Rennell expressly on the discoveries of Park, that distinguished geographer, on comparing the various accounts of the progress of the Niger beyond Houssa, had given a distinct opinion that its waters had no communication either with the river Nile or the Sea; but were spread out into a great lake in Wangara and Ghana, and were evaporated by the heat of the sun.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Among more than forty whom I spoke to at Esne, I could not find one whose country was as far west as Kashna; but I met with several who came from Wangara.

Travels in Nubia 2004

I have not met with a single man from Wangara, nor could I ever find any whose native country was west of Wangara.

Travels in Nubia 2004

Thus the lakes of Wangara would be the lagoons of the Slave-coast, in which the Niger may truly be said to lose itself.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Of course the writer had recourse to the “Lakes of Wangara,” in north latitude 12° to 15°: that solution of the difficulty belonged inevitably to his day.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Men still wasted their vigour upon the Nigritis Palus, the Chelonídes waters, the Mount Caphas, and the lakes of Wangara, variously written Vancara and Vongara, not to mention other ways.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003