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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXVI. 
place of importance. But its peculiar political situation, forced 
upon it by the events of this period, when it became the residence 
of a rebel chief waging war on all around, prevented my visiting 
it at a future period. 
1st day. On leaving Kan 6, sleep in Gogia, where the governor 
of Kano has a house, and where you arrive about two o'clock in 
the afternoon. 
2nd. Gaya, another town of the province of Kano, where you 
arrive about the same hour, having crossed in the forenoon the 
bed of a torrent with water only in the rainy season. 
3rd. Duchi or Dutsi ; arrive about the aser, having crossed in 
the morning a torrent called Dedurra, and passed about noon a 
half-deserted place called Katakata. 
4th. Zogo, a large open place ; about aser. Many small villages 
on the road. 
5th. Khadeja, a large town surrounded with a beautiful and 
very strong double clay wall, and well inhabited, the courtyards 
being inclosed with clay walls, but containing only reed huts. 
The inhabitants employ themselves exclusively in warlike expe- 
ditions, and have no industry ; but nevertheless there are still to 
be seen here a few dyeing-pots, marking the eastern limit of this 
branch of industry. On the south side of the town is a kogi, or 
komadugu, with a stream of running water in the rainy season, 
but with only stagnant pools in summer, along which a little 
wheat is cultivated. It is generally called Wani. 
6th. Garu-n-ghabbes, a middle-sized walled town, the first 
place of Bornu, on this side, with a good deal of cultivation around. 
Though without importance in other respects, it is so in an his- 
torical point of view ; for this place being identical with the town 
Biram ta ghabbes, mentioned above, is regarded as the oldest 
place of the seven original settlements of the Hausa nation. 
7th. A'lam'ay, the place which I passed by this morning ; arrive 
about aser. Country in a wild state ; no cultivation. 
