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entered, and was fortunate enough to collect some 
valuable data.* 
The Miisgu, or Musekii, are a division of the great 
nation of the Masaf , which comprises the Kotoko, or 
Makari, the people of Logon, or L6gone, the Man- 
dara, or U'r Wandala, with the Gamerghii, and the 
large tribe of the Batta, and probably even that of 
the Mbana. Of these tribes the most intimately re- 
lated to the Miisgu are the people of Log6n, who, as 
we shall soon have occasion to show, are nothing but 
a section which has quite recently separated from 
the parent stock, and constituted itself as a distinct 
community, owing to its higher state of civilization. 
* I here give a list of the chief principalities and places of the 
Musgu country. First, at a short distance east from Kade, the 
residence of A'dishen, there is a place called Mayum ; then a small 
place called Maga ; then Barka, at present deserted ; Masanafa, 
residence of the prince Asanafay, after whom the whole princi- 
pality is called ; Marabna ; I'ka ; Biilno ; Makalne, probably 
originally the residence of a prince Akalne, but at present the 
residence of the powerful chief Kabishme ; Suran ; Mazaga, the 
residence of a powerful chief who generally, after the name of 
the whole principality, is named Fuss, but whose real name seems 
to be Ngoimata ; Luggoy; Barea ; Bugunla, with a chief Hyyum ; 
Mbogtam ; Boiboy ; Kubasemi, with a prince Margo ; Kalan ; 
Ngelmong ; Morom, with a chief Saderanza ; Bullum ; Bege ; 
JMadalang ; Kasway, which on our farther march we left a little 
to the east ; the principality Kakala ; Dwan or Adwan, towards 
the south-west ; Gemay, a large place, south-east ; Wuliya ; Demmo ? 
A'udege *, Agse. Some of these places are districts, which we 
shall touch at in the course of the expedition ; the position of the 
others I am not able to fix with certainty. 
j The Bagirmi people, even at the present day, call the Musgu 
by the name Masa Musekii. 1 
