TRIBES OF THE TEBU OR TEDA'. 
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neighbourhood of Waday, Niyu, if I were sure that they 
belong to the nation of the Tebu. But the few words of 
their language which I was able to ascertain, such as water, 
fire, are entirely different from the corresponding words in 
modi Teda:—" water," mi (Terauye), eyi (Teda) ; "fire," 
jo (Terauye), wueni (Teda). One of their chiefs is Ruzzi, 
who has become well known on account of his connection 
with the mercantile enterprise of f Abd el Kerim Sabun the 
king of Waday.* This chief, who was still living in 1851, is 
a Moslim, while most of the Terauye are pagans. 
* See Fresnel, Bulletin de la Soc. de Geogr. 1849, 3me serie, 
t. xi. p. 53. 
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