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tance from this place is a valley with date-trees. 
A man on foot can easily reach Talgin in two days 
from Beri, sleeping in Keskawa. From Talgin the 
direct road leads to Mawo in three days : — 
1st. Maniga, a place inhabited by Tebu and Kanembu, 
and situated, as it seems, on a creek of the lake. 
2nd. A village inhabited by Tebu, under the authority 
of Kashelia Bacha, with a market of some im- 
portance, where a great many dates are sold. 
3rd. Reach Mawo at sunset, after having passed the 
heat in an open valley-plain with date-trees. 
5th. Vuli, or Fuli. From here another route leads to Mawo. 
6 th. Kununu. 
7th. Kanana. 
8th. Forrom, a place on terra Jirma, not to be confounded 
with the island of the same name. 
9 th. Ngillewa. 
10th. Medi. 
11th. Taghghel. 
I will here only just mention that Taghghel cannot be iden- 
tical with Denham's Tangalia, because the latter was situate 
about one day's journey south (see Denham, vol. i. p. 265.*), 
or rather S.W. from the Bahr el Ghazal, and Taghghel lies 
a day and a half to the north of it. 
III. — The Bahr el Ghazal, called "burrum" by the 
Kanembu, and " fede " by the Tebu Gur'aan. 
All the accounts which I received with regard to this 
much talked-of valley, which it had been our ardent desire to 
visit, agreed in the very remarkable statement, that its in- 
clination was not from the desert towards the lake, but from 
* In this passage, however, it seems almost as if there were a 
misunderstanding, " in a day " instead of " once." 
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