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have the good fortune of finding the country still in a flourish- 
ing state. Even the name of this important place was scarcely 
known* before my researches in 1851, while the name of the 
country, Kororofa, though well known to former geographers, 
had been erased from recent maps. Wukari was placed in my 
map close to the river, a few miles only too far north and east ; 
but had I been able to correct it according to my latest in- 
formation, from which I learnt that it lay not on the main 
river itself, but on a small branch f, I should have laid it down 
exactly in the right position. 
Wukari lies on the west side of a small rivulet, called, by 
my Hausa informants, ec kogi-n-Kalam," which is said to join 
the Benuwe, or, as the great river is called in at least one of 
the dialects of Kororofa, which seems not to have come under 
the notice of the expedition, " Zanfir." In a straight line, 
Wukari is only a good morning's walk (" taffy an hantsi ") — that 
is, about ten miles — . from the shores of the Benuwe. The 
town is said to be very large, even larger than Kan 6 ; not 
however, like the latter, embracing a wide extent of fields, 
but densely inhabited to the very walls. The people do 
not drink the water of the rivulet which skirts their town, 
but supply their wants from ponds in its interior, proba- 
bly like those in Kano. They are distinguished by their 
dark complexion, and features not disfigured by shashawa 
or tattooing, by their long hair and their neat shirts, 
or rather plaids, " zenne," which they wrap round the body. 
Indeed the inhabitants of Kororofa are celebrated all over 
Chubum, has not been able to reach that important place, (the 
name of which he writes Okale), on account of the flooded state of 
the country. 
* There is some faint indication of such a place in Dupuis' Re- 
searches; and its name, as Okare, is mentioned by William Allen. 
f This information, received after I had laid down the map, was, 
however, indicated by Mr. Petermann in the notes accompanying 
his Atlas, p. 11. 
