Chap. XXX. 
THE TWO TOWNS. 
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out as it is in two distinct towns, each surrounded 
with its wall, the one, occupied chiefly by the rich 
and wealthy, containing very large establishments, 
while the other, with the exception of the principal 
thoroughfare which traverses the town from west to 
east, consists of rather crowded dwellings, with nar- 
row winding lanes. These two distinct towns are 
separated by a space about half a mile broad, itself 
thickly inhabited on both sides of a wide open 
road which forms the connection between them, but 
laid out less regularly, and presenting to the eye a 
most interesting medley of large clay buildings and 
small thatched huts, of massive clay walls surround- 
ing immense yards, and light fences of reeds in a 
more or less advanced state of decay, and with a 
Explanation of References in the Engraving on the preceding page. 
1. English house, of which a special plan is given on page 299. 
2. Palace, " fato maibe," of the sheikh, in the western town or billa futebe, with 
the mosque, " mashidf," at the corner. 
3. Minaret of mosque. 
4. Square at the back of the palace, with a most beautiful caoutchouc-tree, the finest 
in Kukawa. 
5. Dendal, or principal street. 
6. Area before the southern gate where all the offal and dead bodies of camels and 
cattle, and sometimes even of slaves, are thrown, and which, during the rainy- 
season, is changed into a large and deep pond. 
7. Palace of the sheikh in the eastern town, or billa-gedi'be. 
8. Palace of the vizier el Haj Beshir. 
9. House where I was first lodged on my arrival, afterwards occupied by Lamino, 
the vizier's head man. 
10. (The house west from this) Palace belonging to Abu-Bakr, the sheikh's eldest 
and favourite son, with a very large caoutchouc-tree in front. 
11. House belonging to Abba Yusuf, second brother of the sheikh. 
12. House occupied during my later stay by Lamino. 
13. Hollows from whence the clay has been taken for building material, and 
which, during the rainy season, are changed into deep pools of stagnant 
water. 
14. Cemetery. 
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