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2nd. About noon arrive at Sabo-n-birni, a small village 
consisting of shibki. The road is partly covered 
with forest, and partly cultivated ; but there are no 
villages, the people, during the rainy season, coming 
from a great distance to cultivate the country. 
3rd. About noon reach Riruwe, a considerable place sur- 
rounded by an earthen wall, and having a well- 
attended market every Tuesday. Riruwe is at a 
short distance south from Sabo-n-gari; and many 
persons going from Kano to Yakoba, prefer joining 
this road and leaving the other at Sabo-n-gari. 
4th. About one o'clock p. m. reach U'mbutu, or Mbutu, a vil- 
lage situated at the foot of a mountain, on the top of 
which there is another place of the same name. The 
inhabitants, who are very fierce, wear a bone stuck 
through the chin. They do not pay any tribute to 
the Feliani of Zariya nor to those of Yakoba, and 
constantly intercept the communication — as hap- 
pened, indeed, in 1851, during my stay in Kano. 
Near the first village is a rivulet which joins the 
Gurara, one of the tributary streams of the Kwara. 
The whole march leads through forest. 
5th. About one o'clock p.m. reach Warji, a village situated 
at the foot of a large mountain extending far to the 
west, on the top of which there are other villages of 
the same name, whose inhabitants wage war against 
the Feliani. Informant states that the inhabitants 
of the valley pay tribute to the governor of Kano ; 
but I think he means that of Bauchi. Cattle of a 
particular kind called muturu are frequent here, 
much smaller than the ox, with shorter legs, without 
the hump, and of a grey colour. I saw a specimen 
of this kind afterwards in Kukawa. 
6th. About aser reach Melanlawel, a considerable place with 
a clay wall, situated in the plain at the S.E. foot 
