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dinki, Kimi-n-koro, Toji, Yarkasa, Mandawari, Mar- 
mara (different from the quarter mentioned above), 
Dantiirku, Sabansara, Kudedefawa, Jingo, Doseyi, 
Wariire, Gao (an interesting name, identical with 
that of the capital of the Songhay empire), Kur- 
mawa, Hausawa, Ungwa Makama, Ghaladanchi (the 
quarter wherein resides the ghaladima), Shiiramchi 
(the quarter where lives the eldest son of the go- 
vernor, whose title chiroma — a Kamiri name — in 
the corrupted form of " shiiromo " has furnished the 
name of the quarter), Ye-serki, Kurmawa (not iden- 
tical with the above), "Kusserawa" (the corner), 
Udelawa. South from the palace of the governor, 
Kmri-n-kera, Karaka, Dugerawa, Yakase, Naserawa 
(most probably destined to be hereafter the quarter 
of the Nasara or Christians), and 'Abdelawa. 
All over the town, clay houses and huts, with 
thatched conical roofs, are mixed together ; but gene- 
rally in the southern quarter the latter prevail. The 
clay houses, as far as I have seen them in Dala, where 
of course Arab influence predominates, are built in a 
most uncomfortable style, with no other purpose than 
that of obtaining the greatest possible privacy for do- 
mestic life, without any attempt to provide for the 
influx of fresh air and light, although I must admit 
that a few houses are built in somewhat better taste ; 
but invariably the courtyard is extremely small, and 
in this respect the houses of Kano are very inferior 
to those of A r gades and Timbuktu, which are built 
almost on the same principle as the dwellings of the 
