FROM KANO' TO KE'fFI-N-ABDEZE'NGA. 563 
having crossed a rivulet which sometimes presents 
difficulty in the rainy season, you arrive at Zariya. 
10th. About noon arrive at a village called Ungwa A'rende. 
Small waterpools on the road. 
11th. About eleven o'clock a.m. reach Kasellu, a walled place 
with the wall in a state of decay, and with a market 
held every other day. 
12th. About the same hour arrive at Gimba, a large walled 
place, but thinly inhabited. 
13th. Reach Matari, a large place. Between Gimba and Ma- 
tan, nearer the latter, is a kurremi, which during 
the rainy season can be crossed only in boats. 
14th. Kabi, a considerable walled market-place. 
15th. Reach a small village called Kasabo, situated on a 
mountain-range running eastward. The whole 
country is mountainous ; and a little before you 
reach Kasabo you pass a high mountain with a vil- 
lage on its top. 
16th. Encamp in the forest called " Dawa-n-serki-n-Fawa," 
where there is a kurremi, dry during the hot season. 
17th. A small village of the district Kadara, ravaged by the 
Fulbe. 
18th. During the dry season you reach a place called Jere 
(not Tere), while in the rainy season you encamp 
on the shore of the Gurara, the chief branch of the 
Kaduna, which cannot be crossed but in boats. The 
country mountainous. 
19th. Reach a small village called Kamane; country moun- 
tainous. 
20th. A small place called Kateri, situated on a kogi, with 
water at all seasons of the year, and well wooded. 
It joins the Gurara. 
21st. A straggling Village called Gola-mmda, inhabited en- 
tirely by Fulbe or Fellani. The country level, 
with mountains in the distance. 
