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possess no groups of settled habitations deserving the name of town or village. 

 Here it is everywhere conterminous with the powerful Mahommedan kingdom of 

 Wadaï, with which it is connected by only one known military or caravan highway. 

 The drainage also lies in the same direction, all the streams rising on the western 

 slopes of the Marrah range flowing intermittently through the Batha and the 

 Bahr-es-Salamat westwards to the basin of Lake Tsad. 



