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APPENDIX. 
(&.) Mas-end to Runga and Silld, according to Agid Burku. 
Route not in a straight course, but veering westerly. 
1st day. Gmim, a considerable place, with a rampart, and a 
large clay-built mosque. A well- wooded tract. 
2nd. A'm-jerri, a middling-sized place, surrounded by a 
stockade, inhabited by elephant and lion-hunters. 
You pass some wood. 
3rd. Kirsuwa (Jibilki ?), on a river which flows N.N.W., 
abounding with fish, and navigated during the rains 
by the people in bukhsa, those large calabashes de- 
scribed on a former occasion. A woody tract. 
4th. Kirsuwa Hirla, a place under a powerful chief, to the 
south of which is a considerable well- wooded moun- 
tain. Of the inhabitants, one-half are pagans, and 
the other half Moslemin. A long march. 
oth. Bedanga, a place surrounded by a palisade, to the west 
of which is a mountain, only inhabited by pagans, 
with abundance of fig-trees, which are considered 
holy. The soil to the north consists of sand, and in 
the southern part of clay. The wells are about five 
fathoms deep. The gar (chief) of Bedanga is de- 
pendent upon Bagirmi. 
6th. Bammena, a pagan place in a mountainous tract, where 
water is only obtained from wells. The huts are of 
reeds. Not distant. 
7th. O'le Mantanja, a large pagan place. The upper parts 
of the huts consist of reeds, the lower parts of clay. 
Halt at noon near a large mountain in the wilder- 
ness. * 
8th. Somo, a place situated partly on the top and partly at 
the foot of a mountain possessing springs. The in- 
habitants are pagans ; they breed horses, cows, and 
sheep, eat pork, and cultivate much cotton. Tetel 
(Antilope oryx) abounds here ; also an animal called 
