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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LIII. 
sented rather a cheerful aspect, the thatch being 
thickly interwoven with and enlivened by the creepers 
of various cucurbitaceae, but especially the favourite 
kobewa or Melopepo. The same difference which 
was exhibited in the nature of the country and the 
dwellings of the natives, appeared also in the character 
of the latter, the Kaniiri horseman or the Koy&m 
camel-breeder being here supplanted by the Manga 
footman, with his leather apron, his bow and arrow, 
and his battle-axe, while the more slender Manga 
girl, scarcely peeping forth from under her black 
veil, with which she bashfully hid her face, had suc- 
ceeded to the Bornu female, with her square figure, 
her broad features, and her open and ill-covered breast. 
I have observed elsewhere that, although the Manga 
evidently form a very considerable element in the 
formation of the Bornu nation, their name as such 
does not occur in the early annals of the empire, and 
we therefore can only presume that they owe their 
origin to a mixture of tribes. 
Having passed the important place of Kadagarruwd 
and some other villages, we encamped on the 5th 
near the extensive village Mammari, where the go- 
vernor of the province at that time resided.* 
* TcKhis province, although I do not know by what particular 
name it is called by the natives, belong the following places, be- 
sides Mammari or Mommoli : — Katikenwa (a large place), Gubal- 
gorum (touched at by me on my former route) at a short distance 
to the S.E., Tafiyori E., Kenbudduwa, Maine, Nay, Mammed Ka- 
niiri, Madi Kulloram, Kara ngamduwa to the N., Keriwa, Diig- 
guli, Gudderam, Ngaboliya, Kajimma, Alaune, Nghurutuwa, Bam. 
