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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chaf. LII. 
Having passed several larger or smaller villages, 
and innumerable swamps, we halted for the night, 
after a march of eleven hours, in a village inhabited 
by Shuwa and FeMta, and called Waugara, a name 
which is rather remarkable ; but it required a long 
negotiation in order to obtain quarters, as these 
people, who rely upon the strongholds afforded them 
by the swampy neighbourhood of the lake, are of a 
very independent character. But having once made 
their acquaintance, we were hospitably treated. The 
billama of the village was a Tynjurawi, who had emi- 
grated to this place from M6ndo ; but he did not 
understand the peculiar idiom of his tribe. 
During my next day's march, I led rather an 
amphibious life, being almost as much in the water 
as on the dry ground ; for, besides being drenched by 
a heavy rain, which lasted the greater part of the day, 
I had to pass three considerable rivulets without the 
aid of a boat, and had twice to strip myself and swim 
my horse across, tying clothes and saddle on my 
head. The first rivulet we had to cross was the 
Mulu, about seven hundred yards beyond the small 
town called Legari, which belongs to Kashella Belal ; 
the second was probably the Mbulii, and identical 
with the river called Gumbalaram by Major Den- 
ham, beyond the village of Dagala, which lies on 
a small eminence. At the Mulu we had enjoyed 
the assistance of the inhabitants of Legari ; but 
here I and my mallem, with whom I had vigo- 
rously pushed on in advance, were left to our own 
