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PART II. 
A FEW REMARKS ON THE PROVINCE OF YA'URI, AND 
ON THOSE OF MATJRI AND ZABE'RMA. 
Mohammed, the elder brother and predecessor of Khalilu, 
granted imana to Dan- Ay, a NyfFawi by birth, who ruled 
Yauri for thirty years, and was succeeded by Mafori, who 
governs Yauri at the present time. 
The annual tribute which Yauri pays to Gando consists 
of 500 shirts, and from thirty to fifty slaves ; while that of 
Nupe consists of 1000 shirts and 300 slaves. 
I will here add a few remarks with regard to Ntipe or 
Nyfn. The northern frontier of Nupe or Nyffi is Fashi ; 
the eastern border towards Gwari is LifFe ; the southern one, 
Koro, towards Yuguchi and Bunu. The large town Charagi, 
inhabited half by Yorubawa, half by NyfFawa, is two days 
from Raba by way of Karakara. It is the Yorubawa who 
call the Ntipe people, Tapa. The NyfFawa themselves call 
the Hausawa, Kenchi, and the Fulbe, Goy. The Hausawa 
call the NyfFawa, as well as some other related tribes, Baibay. 
The rivulet or faddama called Kontagora separates the terri- 
tory of the Abewa or Ebbawa from that of Nupe, while on 
the other side it borders upon Yauri. On the Kontagora 
is the large town Kura, belonging to the Kambari. The 
Abewa live especially on the Manjara, are said to have an 
idiom of their own, and are armed exclusively with arrows. 
The people of Nupe Proper are exclusively cavalry. 
Principal towns and villages in the province of Yauri, 
beginning from Bessekuttu : — Shenga, Kakate, Dukku, 
B. Yauri, Gang wo, Sawasi, Tondi, Funtu-n-duchi, Fombo, 
Sombo, A'rgida, Shobbono, Rabako, Bagede, Mofongi, 
Luchi, Mochipa, Ngaski, A'gura, CKbaka (large place), Ber- 
way, Kwene, Zente, Mojinga, all near to B. Yauri ; Mofilo 
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