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we remained here the following day, when I felt 
strength enough to walk out a little into the fields. 
There was an extraordinary difference between the 
advanced state in which I had left the crops in A'da- 
mawa and that in which I found them here. The 
reader will remember that the fields round this place 
were just being sown on the day of my leaving it ; 
and during the time of my absence rain must have 
been rather scanty, so that the crops were scarcely 
twenty inches above the ground. In the afternoon, 
Billama, who was always obliging, gave me some in- 
formation with regard to the adjacent country, which 
I shall here insert in a note*, though it is not so 
clear as might be desired. 
* About eight miles S. W. from this is a place called Bala, 
originally belonging to the Margin, but at present inhabited by 
Kanuri people. Towards the east, at no great distance, is the 
town of U'zo, belonging to that division of the Gamerghu whose 
chief resides in Degimba; E. N.E., at the distance of two days, 
is the walled town of Gawa, the residence of the greater chief. A 
little N. of E., about fifteen miles, is U'rka, or Wurka. A'laba, 
one short day's march, about ten miles, S.E. from U'rka, is the 
easternmost town of the Gamerghu, whose territory, however, ex- 
tends in this direction as far as Mount Disa. In the immediate 
neighbourhood of A'laba is the small town of Segagiyu. East- 
ward from Disa is Mount Kirya ; and east from this is Mount U'la, 
or Wula ; one day beyond Wula is the conspicuous Mount De- 
ladeba. One short day to the N. of Deladeba is Mount Welle, 
at the northern foot of which lies the large walled place of the 
name of Karawa, the former capital of Wandala, already mentioned, 
as we shall see, by the historian of the Bornu king, Edris Ala- 
woma, — with two gates. To the N. of Karawa, and about six 
miles S. of Delhe, is Ajemmaja, or, as it is called by others, Haj 
A'maka, a place inhabited by Slmwa, or native Arabs, who occupy 
all the country as far as Dikowa. 
