FROM GULFEI TO FORT LAMY 139 



was at this time ten or twelve miles from the Lake, which 

 was said to come right up in the rainy season. 



A ICOTOKO MAN AT N GALA 



Leaving at 6.30 a.m. on February 16, Goshng journeyed 

 to a Kanuri town called Gullo, situated among some fine 

 trees, under one of which he pitched his tent. Here he 

 describes the way he used always to arrange the zana -matting 

 enclosure round his camp in two sections, in one of which 

 he had his tent and the loads, while the other held the oxen, 

 the same doorway doing for both so that it needed only one 

 man to guard them. 



