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rivulet or torrent intersects the district, running 
towards the north. Pass the two preceding nights in 
two small villages, the names of which my informant 
had forgotten; most probably they are identical 
with Gidan Bakaya (not G. Banaya) and Kala. One 
long day's march N.E. from Katab, is the pagan dis- 
trict Shawe, wherein the Kaduna is said to take its 
rise. 
8th. Kaje, a village situated on the top of a hill, other 
villages being scattered about in the plain. 
9th. Dangoma, a small slave-village belonging to Darroro, 
situated on the top of a mountain. About the middle 
of your day's march you cross the river Gurara, 
running through a deep valley, and forming a cas- 
cade at some distance N.E. from Darroro. It runs 
westward, though in a very winding course, and 
joins the Kaduna near the town of Gwari. This is 
evidently the river which Lander calls Rari, and 
which, its course not being accurately observed by 
him, as he had to cross it repeatedly, has given rise 
to that unfortunate theory of Capt. William Allen, 
with regard to the connection of the Chadda with 
Lake Chad, or rather Tsad. 
10th. Darroro, a town in a strong position, surrounded with 
an artificial wall only on the north side ; still belong- 
ing to the province of Zegzeg. At some distance 
from it, in the plain, there is a new Fellani settle- 
ment called Jemaa-n-Darroro ; the word jemmaa, 
or, as it is generally pronounced, jemmara, "the con- 
gregation," being the characteristic word for the re- 
ligious and political reformation of the Fulbe. There 
is a direct road from Katab to Jemmaa, passing by 
the small open place called " Madawaki-n-mutuwa," 
where the mountainous district commences. It was 
in Darroro that Richard Lander thought that he was 
but a few miles distant from Yakoba, the capital of 
Bauchi, while in reality he seems to have been, in a 
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