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towns and villages of the Kaniiri are, it lay dispersed in 
eleven or twelve separate clusters of huts, shaded by 
a rich profusion of korna- and blto-trees. I was con- 
ducted by my companion, Kashella Kotoko, to the 
house of Fiigo 'Ali. It was the house wherein Mr. 
Overweg, a year and a half later, was to expire ; 
while Fiigo 'Ali himself, the man who first contracted 
friendship with me, then conducted my companion 
on his interesting navigation round the islands of the 
lake, and who frequented our house, was destined to 
fall a sacrifice in the revolution of 1854. How dif- 
ferent was my reception then, when I first went to 
his house on this my first excursion to the lake, and 
when I revisited it with Mr. Vogel in the beginning 
of 1855, when Fiigo 'Ali's widow was sobbing at my 
side, lamenting the ravages of time, the death of my 
companion, and that of her own husband. 
The village pleased me so much that I took a 
long walk through it before I sat down to rest ; and 
after being treated most sumptuously with fowls and 
a roasted sheep, I passed the evening very agreeably 
in conversation with my black friends. The in- 
habitants of all these villages are Kanembii*, be- 
longing to the tribe of the Sugiirti, who in former 
times were settled in Kanem, till by the wholesale 
devastation of that country they were compelled to 
leave their homes and seek a retreat in these regions. 
Here they have adopted the general dress of the 
Kaniiri ; and only very few of them may at present 
* Kanembu is the plural of Kanemma. 
