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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. XLIV. 
with this fact from other sources. The very interest- 
ing route of the mallem Jymma from Demmo, by 
the village of the Tuburi to Laka and Lame, I have 
already communicated on a former occasion.* It 
is to be hoped that these regions will soon become 
better known, when English steamers shall go an- 
nually up the river Benuwe, and enable travellers to 
start afresh from thence for those inland regions. 
* I will here only observe with what exactitude I have laid 
down, on my map which was published by Mr. Petermann, the 
district of the Tuburi, which exactly corresponds with the lati- 
tude ascertained by Dr. VogeL As to the longitude assigned by 
me to this place, it is dependent on the meridian of Kukawa. 
