fa'ki i'brahi'm's route. 
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disappeared, all the trees having been cut down 
during the great famine which prevailed seventeen 
years ago, in order to feed on the nourishing pith 
or core. 
11th. A'm-alawi, a considerable place, inhabited by Waday 
and the Jaatena Arabs, at some distance from the 
Bat-ha, which here turns southward. As far as 
A'm-alawi, where I'brahim stopped two days, the 
whole district belongs to Dar Maba, or Waday Pro- 
per. Stop in the morning at a small hamlet. From 
A'rda you turn a little N. by W. 
12 th. Encamp in the sandy bed of the Bat-ha without an 
inhabited place. Surra is left to the right in the 
north bend of the wadi. My informant did not stop 
for the heat during these days, but travelled on 
from morning till noon. 
13th. Kharub, in the bed of the Bat-ha, no inhabited place. 
14th. Jeddada, open encampment in the Bat-ha. 
15th. Seta, a village of the Bulala in their district of Fittri. 
16th. Gamsa, a place of the Bulala on the south bank. 
17th. Yawa or Yawo, capital of the Bulala, close to the 
north bank of the Bat-ha. Middogo is from here 
about twelve hours E.S.E. 
18th. Melme, a considerable market-place, consisting of three 
hamlets, close to the north bank of the (lake) Fittri. 
Between Ya f wo and Melme, the road describes an 
angle. 
1 9th. Encamp in a forest at midnight, having stopped during 
the heat at a well, and started thence at dhohor. Up 
to this well the road follows a westerly direction ; 
from here to Mas-ena it keeps south.* 
20th. Moito, the first place in Bagirmi, which, however, has 
to pay a separate tribute of 400 shirts to the agid 
* This is a very important circumstance, which explains all the 
errors of M. Fresnel in constructing his incomplete itineraries. 
