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CONTENTS OF 
the Benuwe. — The Passage. — The Eiver Faro ; its Current. — Floods 
and Fall of the River. — Chabajaure. — Densely inhabited District. — 
Mount Bagele. — The Backwater. — Ribago — Cultivation of Rice. — ■ 
The Batta Language. — Inundation. — Yebborewo. — Mount Bagele and 
Island. — Reach Yola. 
CHAP. XXXVI. 
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My Reception in Yola. — Short Stay. — Dismissal - - 485 
Inauspicious Entrance Curiosity of Natives Quarters. — An Arab 
Traveller to Lake Nyassa. — The Governor Mohammed Lowel. — The 
Audience. — The Mission repulsed. — The Governor's Brother Mansur. 
— Ordered to withdraw. — Begin my Return- Journey. — Character of 
Yola. — Slavery. — Extent of Fumbina. — Elevation and Climate. — 
Vegetable and Animal Kingdom. — Principal Chiefs of the Country. — 
Tribes ; the Batta, the Chamba, and other Tribes. 
CHAP. XXXVII. 
My Journey Home from A'damawa - - - 515 
Start from Ribago. — Hospitable Treatment in Sullen. — Demsa-Poha. — 
The Memorable Campaign Southward. — View of a Native Settlement. 
Beautiful Country. — Belem again. — Mallem Dalili and his Family. — 
Muglebu. — Mubi. — My Quarters Household Furniture. — U'ba. — 
Unsafe Boundary-district. — Lahaula. — I'ssege. — Iron Ornaments of 
the Marghi. — Funeral Dance. — Ordeal. — Feeling of Love. — A Party 
going to Sacrifice. — Arrival at Yerimari. — Villages of the Gamerghu. 
— Uje Kasukula. — Difference of Climate. — Plants. — Huts. — Plains of 
Born u Proper. — Seizing a Hut. — African Schoolboys. — A wandering 
Tribe. — Town and Country. — Guineaworm. — Thunder-storm. — People 
returning from Market. — Munghono, — Return to Kukawa. 
APPENDIX. 
I. 
Quarters of the Town of Katsena - 555 
II. 
Chief Places in the Province of Katsena 
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