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Kowa Baga, a Buduma fish-market which is situated at the 

 end of a promontory, known to the people as Seyurum, 

 where he hoped to get in touch with the Budumas. In 

 order to approach them quietly he got rid of as many carriers 

 as possible, in their stead using oxen for transport, which 

 were lent him by the Shehu of Kukawa. On the road 

 through the maio bush from Kowa down to the Lake, his 

 oxen stampeded in the night, and it was found in the 

 morning that there were tracks of elephants close to their 

 tethers. Taking with him a Kanembu hunter as guide, 

 whom he described as old and grey and armed with a bow of 

 ancestral type, and with fingers covered with silver rings 

 and ju-jus hung all over his person, GosUng followed the path 

 of the elephants down to the Lake. Here they had dis- 

 appeared into the reeds to cool themselves for the day, 

 so he pitched camp and waited for them to return on their 

 tracks. Next morning he found that they had come out of 

 the Lake unobserved, so he struck camp and followed them. 

 After going through the bush for four hours, the tracks again 

 led down into the Lake, and another night was spent waiting 

 for their return. He describes the mosquitoes as being 

 very terrible at this time. The men dug holes in the 

 earth to sleep in, covering themselves with grass. He, him- 

 self, slept by a smoke fire to keep ofE their attacks, and 

 he goes on to describe the way jackals, kob, and hartebeest 

 came ranging close about him. 



Next day he continued the hunt though there were no 

 tracks to show where the elephants had come out of the Lake. 

 However, after following the shore-hne towards Kaddai for 

 four miles, Umuru suddenly saw an elephant about 300 



