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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. XXIII. 
Maijirgi^, Kogena na kay-debti, Kormasa, K6rgom, 
Kanche (a little independent principality); Gumda, 
half a day east of Gazawa, with numbers of A'sbe- 
nawa ; Dernbeda, or Diimbida, at less distance ; Sha- 
bali, Babil, Tiirmeni, Ginga, Kandemka, Sabo-n-kefi, 
Zangoni-n-akwa, Ktirni, Kurnawa, Dangudaw. On the 
west side, where the country is more exposed to the 
inroads of the Fiilbe or Fellani, there is only one place 
of importance, called Tindukku, which name seems 
to imply a close relation to the Tawarek. All these 
towns and villages are said to be in a certain degree 
dependent on Raffa, the " baba " (i. e. great man or 
chief) of Gazawa, who, however, himself owes alle- 
giance to the supreme ruler of Maradi. 
There was an exciting stir in the encampment 
at about ten o'clock in the morning, illustrative 
of the restless struggle going on in these regions. 
A troop of about forty horsemen, mostly well mounted, 
led on by the serki-n-Gumda, and followed by a body 
of tall slender archers, quite naked but for their 
leathern aprons, passed through the different rows of 
the airi, on their way to join the expedition which 
the prince of Maradi was preparing against the 
Fellani. 
About noon the natron-caravan of Haj Al Wali, 
which I had seen in Tasawa, came marching up in 
* This village I touched at on my journey from Zinder to Ka- 
tsena in 1853 — a journey which is of great importance for the 
construction of my routes collectively, as it forms the link 
between my first route and Zinder. 
