koro'kofa. 
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a mountain or hill ; and a river or creek is said to skirt the 
town. 
This important place can be reached in three good days' 
marches from Yakoba, sleeping the first night, after a very 
long and fatiguing day's journey through a mountainous 
country (granite, as it seems), in Gasge, a town as large as 
Ngornu, inhabited by Fulbe and native pagans, and the second 
in Yunguru. Yunguru is a town inhabited by the conquer- 
ing tribe, while the native pagans live in straggling villages 
along the valleys. This is another long day's march, and 
the country mountainous. The third day's journey is shorter ; 
and Waze is reached after about eight hours' march. In 
the dry season at least, when the river may be easily crossed 
either by swimming or even occasionally by fording it, a good 
tourist will reach Wukari from Waze in one day. My in- 
formant, proceeding at a slow rate, and perhaps not in a direct 
line, went from this to Dampar, a place near the Benuwe, 
where it has come under the notice of the Benuwe expedition ; 
then, crossing several creeks which he calls (i rafi-n-dorina," 
and " kogi-n-Deni," and the river itself, passed the places 
Makera, Use (a small village in the plain), then Aikiri (with 
a kogi) and a place which he calls Zango Ladan (probably 
the station, "zango," where a toll or tax, " ladan," is paid, 
and thus at length reached the capital Wukari. 
I have also a soi-disant itinerary from Lafiya Berebere to 
Wukari ; but I will only name the places situated on this 
route without stating the order in which they succeed each 
other. These are Ovi, which seems to be a large town 
distant one day from A'zzara, which is said to be west 
from Aikiri, the place mentioned above ; then Kibi, Doya, 
A'bone, Airo, Kanje, Agwatashi, Deddere. 
I will now say a faw words about Wukari, the capital of 
Kororofa, which it is much to be regretted that the last ex- 
pedition on the river was unable to reach ; but the next 
will, I hope, be more successful in this respect*, if they 
* Mr. Vogel also, though some time at Zibu, which he calls 
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