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yards across, to a large sheet of water more than a 
mile in width. 
2nd. Bulturi, a large village, inhabited by Kanuri. 
3rd. Beda-kurchi, with a large swamp (beda), whence its 
name. You stop during the heat in Dilfin, a 
Kanuri place. 
4th. Dendam, a Bagirmi place. 
5th. Buso, a large town inhabited by a mixed population 
of pagans, who are however clothed, and of Moslemin. 
It contains many of those so-called m'allems, that is 
to say, people who know how to write a few phrases 
from the Kuran. 
(d.) From Buso to Miltu, S.JE. 
1st day. Kiyar, at some distance from the river, the inhabi- 
tants drawing their supply of water only from wells. 
Crossing the river in the morning, you keep close 
along it a little south from east. 
2nd. Tape, a large place on the southern side of the river, 
S. S.E. N.B. Agid Musa appears here to have made 
a mistake by transposing Kiyar and Tape. 
3rd. Miltu, a pagan place of considerable extent, at present 
governed by Ba, the son of 'AH Fenjar, who died 
two years ago in Mas-ena. The inhabitants possess 
large numbers of horses, and prepare, from the ashes 
of the reeds in the river, a sort of salt, which, in the 
form of sugar loaves, has a sale extending over a 
very large region. At Bolo, close to Miltu on the 
east, the Bachikam branches off from the Shari. 
(e.) Places along the Bachikam upwards, S. S.JE. 
Bachikam, the fording place ; I'r, a large town ; Mogal ; 
Mabberat or Mabbelat, formerly the capital of an indepen- 
dent principality ; Mas-enawu, the place of the bowaga or 
trumpeters of the sultan ; Belamedi, a Bagirmi place; Mamsa ; 
