Chap. XXXYI. PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. 
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to say, the town which at present bears this name) 
was, with the exception of Tibati, the only walled 
town which the Fulbe found in the country ; and it 
took them three months of continual fighting to get 
possession of it. I have already mentioned, in another 
place, that this country produces the best sort of 
iron ; and it is not improbable that the more warlike 
spirit of its inhabitants, the Dama, is in some degree 
connected with this circumstance. 
Less powerful than the three governors just men- 
tioned, but nevertheless mighty vassals, and most of 
them valiant champions of the faith, are the following 
chiefs: Bakari (properly Bu-Bakr), governor of Ri- 
bago, north from Bubanjidda ; Ardo Badeshi, governor 
of the territories of the Fall ; Mallem Sude, governor 
of Holma; Mallem Hamma, governor of Song; the 
governor of Summo*; Mahmiid, governor of Kilba ; 
Mallem Dauraka, governor of the large settlement 
of Maruwa or Marba ; Mallem Yiisufa, the pious old 
governor of Binder; Mallem A'dama, the dashing 
governor of Agiirma in the territory of the Dama ; 
Ardo e Omaro, seignior of Sabongi, near Bubanjidda ; 
Mallem Mustafa, the pious old lord of Mindif ; Ardo 
Gari, the energetic and learned master of Bogo, 
whose people joined the Bornu army on the expedi- 
tion to Musgu which I shall describe in the suc- 
ceeding volume; the lord of Kafta-Baudi ; Hiirsu, or 
Khursu, master of Pedde or Fette. 
The dominion of the Fulbe is generally centred in 
* Summo, situated between Holma and Song. 
