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APPENDIX I. 
ACCOUNT OF THE EASTERN PARTS OF KA'NEM, FROM 
NATIVE INFORMATION. 
Itf attempting to give a description of those parts of Kanem 
which I have not visited myself, I must express my regret 
that, when in that country, I had no knowledge of the 
manuscript history of the expeditions of Edris Alawoma 
into the same region, as, with the assistance of the rich 
supply of the important historical as well as geographical 
data contained in that work, I should have been enabled to 
give a far more interesting description of the country, and 
even perhaps to identify the sites of many of its former re- 
markable places. 
The former capital of Kanem, as has been seen, wasNjimi, or 
Njimiye, a place whose approximate situation will be pointed 
out hereafter ; the present capital, if we may still employ this 
title in such a country as Kanem is at the present time, is 
Mawo*, or rather Maw 6, a place which already in the time of 
Edris Alawoma was of great importance. 
* The name is written in Arabic in very different ways, the MS. 
account of the expeditions of Edris sometimes having the form 
at others ^jL> ; but the real indigenous form seems to be Mawo, a 
name exactly similar to Gawo, that of the capital of the Songhay 
empire, and Yawo, the residence of the Bulala princes. It is not 
improbable that by corruption the name Matan, which by Ebn Said 
and Abu '1 Feda (p. 162.) is given to a well-known place in Kanem, 
has originated in the name of Mawo, although they place it close on 
the shore of the Tsad (bahiret Kuri), and north from Njimiye. 
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