Chap. LIX. 
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water. Even at present a considerable quantity of 
the aqueous element had already collected, filling, 
in some places, the whole width of the valley be- 
tween the two banks, to the depth of a foot or two, so 
that the people could not make use of the soil from 
the valley itself ; but they had stored up a sufficient 
provision to enable them to carry on their labours 
for a month or two longer. 
The Fiilbe call these places sile-cholli. It is only 
the salt which induces the inhabitants to remain in 
this locality ; for they have been harassed extremely 
by their energetic enemy the Dendi. The town of 
Kalliul had had to sustain, during a very short pe- 
riod, no fewer than five attacks from the latter, whose 
chief seat, Yelu, closely borders upon their territory ; 
and, in addition to the sad circumstance of all their 
cattle having died, these people had also lost the 
whole of their slaves, who, under such circumstances, 
had run away in a body. The neighbourhood, even 
at the present moment, was so unsafe, that the people 
of the town would not allow me to stay in the open 
hamlet where I was, and wanted me to come to them 
behind their wall ; but fearing longer delay I declined, 
and fixed my departure for the following day. 
Yelu*, the principal place of Dendina the country 
* For the other places of Dendina, see Appendix V. Here I will 
only enumerate a few villages belonging to the districts which we 
passed on our road from Zogirma, and lying just in the border dis- 
trict of the Songhay and Hausa territories. Close to Junju lie the 
following places, or rather hamlets, at present greatly reduced : Ka- 
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