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portant on account of its Friday market, where, 
however, the usual money of Mas-ena, viz. fardas 
and kholgan, has no currency, but only the finest 
gabaga, twenty of which are deemed equivalent to 
one khalag or shirt. About dhohor. 
2nd. Mudda, a Bagirmi place. 
3rd. Dekharuwe, a large place of the Arab tribe of the 
Dekhakhera or Deghaghera. 
4th. Kuri, a Shuwa place on a pond of stagnant water. 
5th. Maskawu, a Shuwa place. 
6th. Gato, a Shuwa place with a pond in the wilderness. 
8th. Jena, a large walled town of the Sokoro, in a hilly 
district. The inhabitants, like almost all of the 
Sokoro, are said to eat a kind of beetle, called " der- 
nana " by the Bagirmi. Jena lies between Gogomi 
and Kome. 
9th. Gogomi, two days from Middobo, a little north from 
east. 
The road from Gogomi to A'bu. Telfan passes by Banem, 
Balli, Sim, Kondola, Kengeta, A'bu. Telfan. 
(t.) Divisions of the Buwa. 
The following divisions of this numerous tribe are subject 
to the Sultan of Bagirmi : the Buwa Nyeldang, the most 
powerful of all ; the Buwa Gamkul ; Gamkul* is from Mid- 
dobo, the frontier-place of Saruwa, twelve miles east, and two 
days south from Gogomi, through a mountainous wilderness ; 
Buwa Fr ; Btiwa Wage, and Buwa Shok. 
The following are independent: the Btiwa La, who are 
very numerous, and are divided into several families, occupy- 
ing distinct places; the Buwa Kunne; Buwa Gangli; Buwa 
Moke ; Buwa Damla ; and east and S.E. from Gamkul, at 
the distance of from twelve to fifteen miles, are the two places 
Kormale and Sarakelle, both situated on the top of a hill, and 
* It is most probable that this is Wogga's Kimkul. — Journal of 
theR. Geogr. Soc, vol. xv. p. 374. " Koome," p. 375., is Belel Kome. 
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