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wa, have received their names from this most beau- 
tiful and useful tree, which in Kaniiri is called tam- 
suku or temsiiku. 
After only four hours' march we halted near the 
village Pirtwa, as Mr. Overweg was now to return, 
and as I wished my other people to come up. Having 
long tried in vain to buy some provisions with 
our "kiingona" or shells, Mr. Overweg at length 
succeeded in purchasing a goat with his servant's 
shirt. This article, even if much worn, is always 
regarded as ready money in the whole of Negroland ; 
and as long as a man has a shirt he is sure not to 
starve. Afterwards the inhabitants of the village 
brought us several bowls of " birri," or porridge of 
Negro corn ; and we employed ourselves in drinking 
coffee and eating, till it was time for Mr. Overweg to 
depart, when we separated with the most hearty 
wishes for the success of each other's enterprise : for 
we had already fully discussed his undertaking to 
navigate the lagoon in the English boat. 
We then started at a later hour, and, following a 
more westerly path, took up our night's quarters at 
Dynnamari, the village of Dynnama or A'made. In- 
stead of this most westerly road, my people had taken 
the most easterly; and we at length joined them, a 
little before noon of the following day, at the village 
U'lo Kura, which, with the whole district, belongs to 
the "Magira" (the mother of the sheikh), and so 
forms a distinct domain called " Magirari." But 
the country for thirty . or forty miles round Kiikawa is 
