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tuted one of the chief celebrities and attractions of 
the country, but which at present, being over- 
whelmed by the surrounding swamps, serves only 
to interrupt the communication between the western 
and eastern provinces. Allured by the pleasing- 
character of the place, I stretched myself out in the 
shade of a group of majestic tamarind trees, while 
the man whom I had taken with me as a guide, 
from the village where we had passed the night, 
gave me some valuable information with regard to 
the divisions of the Koyam, the present inhabitants 
of this region east of the komadugu, which had been 
conquered from the native tribe of the So. He told 
me that the Kiye, or, as the name is generally pro- 
nounced in Bornu, the Kay (the tribe which I have 
mentioned in rny historical account of Bornu) *, ori- 
ginally formed the principal stock of the Koyam, 
together with whom the Maguni and the Farfere con- 
stitute the principal divisions, the chief of the latter 
clan bearing the title of Fiigo. The Temagheri, of 
whom I have also had occasion to speak, and the 
Ngalaga, fractions of both of whom are settled here, 
he described as Kanembu. But, besides these tribes, 
a great proportion of Tebii have mixed with the 
ancient inhabitants of this district, probably since 
the time of the king Edris Alawoma, who forced the 
Tebii settled in the northern districts of Kanem to 
emigrate into Bornu. In connection with the latter 
* See Vol. II. p. 274. 
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