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trated by some selfish people. He had expressed a 
wish to purchase from me a pair of Arab pistols ; 
but although I possessed three beautifully-ornamented 
pairs, I wanted them myself as presents for other 
chiefs on my further march, and therefore could not 
gratify his wish. During my stay here he treated 
me very hospitably, sending me, besides numerous 
dishes of prepared food, two fat sheep as a present. 
Giire, the present residence of Muniyoma, lies on 
the southern slope of a rocky eminence, and is sepa- 
rated, by irregular ground, into several detached 
portions containing, altogether, a population of about 
8000 inhabitants. In former years it was more 
spacious; and its circumference had only been lessened 
a short time before my arrival, in order to insure 
greater security. But it is only surrounded with a 
single, and in some places a double, fence or stockade, 
the south-western corner, which is most exposed to 
an attack, being protected in a curious way, by a 
labyrinth of fences, including a number of cotton- 
grounds and kitchen-gardens.* But although in this 
* I here give a list of the towns and more important villages 
belonging to the province of Muniyo : — Gure, the present capital, 
conquered from the Diggera by Koso the present governor ; Bune, 
the old capital ; New Bune ; Sulleri, the chief market-place ; Wu- 
shek; Gabana ; Sangaya; Meza; Gertegene ; Mazamni; Mastata; 
Keleno ; Kizammana ; Dellakori ; Bobit, W. of Old Bune ; Birni- 
n-Gammachak or Chechega, the oldest possession of the Mu- 
niyomas ; Gabu, inhabited besides by Manga, also by Kanuri 
and Fulbe ; Bratawa ; Kolori ; two places called Gediyo ; Kabara; 
Fasti ; Chagamo ; Merer! ; Ngamari; Berderi ; Wodo; Dudemeri; 
Yebal ; Derikwa ; Kalaliwa ; Chando ; Wurme ; Masoda ; Fusam 
