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of palms growing together in this place in a very 
remarkable manner ; for it is a rare thing to find 
them in one and the same spot. 
The river, while skirting the town, forms a bend, 
and changes its course from a west-easterly to a 
northerly direction. While gliding along the eastern 
shore my companions called my attention to a species 
of very tall reed, which they call korokor6, but which 
is nothing else than the papyrus, which, as I have 
observed, grows on the shores of the Tsad, and which 
we shall find in several smaller lakes. But it was 
highly interesting to me to hear that the natives in 
this country prepare a peculiar sort of cloth or 
" gabaga " from it, which I think must be identical 
with the cloth mentioned by Arab writers under the 
name "w6rzi berdi," being the Egyptian name for 
papyrus. However, I did not observe here several 
other species of the reed which grows on the Tsad, 
principally the bole ; and on inquiring for that beau- 
tiful variety from which the fine matting " kasar " 
or " farfar " is made, and for which the people of 
Logon are so celebrated, I was informed by my com- 
panions that it only grows near the large market- 
town Jinna, of which I shall have occasion to say 
something more further on. I was very anxious to 
know how the natives called this river, to which, by 
Major Denham, the name of Shan or Shary has been 
have no other name for it, while those of A'damawa call it after 
the tree of the native date, viz. the addwa or Balanites JEgyptiaca. 
But the Songhay and Maba or Waday languages have quite inde- 
pendent names for this palm. 
