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After leaving Buso, the country on either hand wore a 

 most solitary aspect, and there was hardly a village anywhere 



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to be seen. We went for days without meeting a single 

 native canoe and the magnificent river flowed on through a 

 silent land untouched by trafiic of any kind. 



Away from the left bank, the interior of the country is 

 inhabited by the Sara tribe, or Kurdi as the Baghirmi and 

 Arabs call them — a name they give to all the bush-people of 

 the region. Having suffered much from the attacks of the 

 slave-raiding Baghirmi, the Saras have been driven away 



