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APPENDIX. 
Benuwe, I now proceed to subjoin a few details illustrating 
the geography of the provinces between Yakoba and Kata- 
gum ; for the country between the former place and the 
Benuwe will, I hope, soon be amply illustrated by Mr. Vogel's 
observations, who seems to have traversed the triangular 
tract of country inclosed between Gombe, Yakoba, and 
Hamarruwa in several directions, and to have come into 
intimate, though at times hostile, contact with the natives. 
The position of Gombe, which he has fixed by astronomical 
observations in lat. 10° 49' N., and long. 10° 16' E., is an 
important check upon the construction of the materials 
obtained by me with regard to this tract of country ; and I 
openly confess that, with regard to Gombe, which I had no 
means of connecting with a southern point, I have erred in 
laying it down much too far south, while with respect to the 
latitude assigned by me to Hamarruwa, which I was able to 
connect with Yola, I have scarcely erred a single mile — a result 
which I hope will inspire some confidence in my numerous 
geographical deductions from native information. 
I start from Katagum, a place twice visited by Captain 
Clapperton, and laid down b}' him correctly, no doubt, with 
regard to latitude, while with regard to longitude it has to 
be shifted, as I shall elsewhere show, about forty geographical 
miles further west. 
Route from Katagum to Gombe, the Capital of Bob^ru. 
1st day. Early in the morning, between nine and ten o'clock, 
you reach Sokkuwa, a large place surrounded by an 
earth wall on the western bank of the "kogi-n- 
Katagum," the water of which is used by the inha- 
bitants for drinking. In the dry season there is no 
stream of running water, but merely stagnant pools. 
The houses of Sokkuwa are built partly of yumbu 
(clay), partly of shibki (reed). A market is held 
here every Saturday. On the road many small vil- 
lages are passed. 
