Chap. XXXVI. VEGETABLES AND ANIMALS. 507 
and in some respects resembles the seal*; it comes 
out of the river in the night, and feeds on the fresh 
grass growing on its banks. 
With regard to domestic animals, cattle were evi- 
dently introduced by the Fiilbe some two or three 
hundred years ago. There is an indigenous variety of 
ox, but quite a distinct species, not three feet h\gh 1 
and of dark-grey colour ; this is called maturu. 
The native horse is small and feeble ; the best horses 
are brought from the northern districts, chiefly from 
U'ba. 
I now proceed to mention the names of the most 
powerful Fiilbe governors of the country, to which I 
shall subjoin a list of the native tribes, over which 
the conquerors are gradually extending their sway, 
and which they may even partially succeed in exter- 
minating. Of those who are bound to the governor 
of A'damawa in due allegiance — that is to say, who 
send him a certain present and assist him in his war- 
like expeditions, the governors of Chamba and Koncha 
take the first rank. The present governor of Chamba, 
A'mba (properly Mohammed) Sambo, who is now a 
very old man, has made himself extremely famous by 
his daring and distant expeditions, and more espe- 
cially that to the Fbo country and to Mbafu, which he 
undertook three years ago, and through which he has 
* Mr. Vogel, who has succeeded in obtaining a sight of this 
animal, found that it is a Mammal like the Manatus Senegalensis. 
The South African rivers also have these Mammals, and the ayu 
is not less frequent in the Tsa near Timbuktu than it is in the 
Benuwe. 
