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of the rocky chain on our right, on the top of which 
we observed the huts of the pagans, we reached the 
wall of U'ba at two o'clock in the afternoon. 
The eastern quarter of this town, the northern- 
most Piillo settlement in A'damawa on this side, 
consisting of a few huts scattered over a wide space, 
has quite the character of a new and cheerless colony 
in Algeria; the earthen wall is low, and strengthened 
with a light double fence of thorn bushes. The 
western quarter, however, is more thickly and com- 
fortably inhabited; and each cluster of huts, which all 
consist of bongo, or rather bukka bongo, " jwarubo- 
karu," is surrounded with a little cornfield. It was 
pleasant to observe how the fences of mats, surrounding 
the yards, had been strengthened and enlivened by 
young living trees of a graceful slender appearance, 
instead of dull stalks, giving to the whole a much 
more cheerful character than is generally the case 
with the villages in other parts of Negroland, par- 
ticularly in Bornu Proper, and promising in a short 
time to afford some cool shade, which is rather want- 
ing in the place.* 
Passing the mosque, the " judirde," a spacious quad- 
rangular building, consisting entirely of halls built 
of mats and stalks, which must be delightfully cool in 
the dry season, but extremely damp during the rains, 
and including a large open space, we reached the 
lamorde (the house of the governor, or lamido) ; it lies 
* The nature of these trees may be seen from the fence of the 
yard in the view of Demsa. 
