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of about seventeen miles, in the midst of the forest, 
close beyond another watercourse ; for we were not 
aware that about two miles further on there was a far 
more favourable place for encamping, viz. the site of 
the former town of Tumpenga. 
The site of this place we passed early the next 
morning. Before the time of the rising of the Jihadi, 
the town had been inhabited by Fiilbe and pagans 
indiscriminately, when, owing to the religious fer- 
ment caused by that reformer, a bloody feud broke 
out between the Mohammedan and pagan inhabit- 
ants. The latter were vanquished, and fled to Naba, 
the powerful Gurma domain at some distance towards 
the south, while the former founded the town of Dore. 
Two dyeing-places bore testimony to the fact that a 
certain degree of industry had formerly prevailed in 
this place, which, like so many other human abodes 
in Christian and Mohammedan countries, has been re- 
duced to desolation in consequence of religious disputes. 
Beyond this place granite protruded in large 
boulders, while monkey-bread trees were in great 
abundance ; but gradually the country became more 
open, the trees being scanty and the soil hard and 
barren. This did not, however, last long, and further 
on we had to cross a considerable sheet of water 
surrounded by fine pasture-grounds ; then followed 
another very barren and open tract, till, after a march 
of almost twenty miles, we reached the village of 
Koria, situated beyond a broad sandy watercourse at 
present dry. The scarcity of herbage was here so 
