ITINERARIES THROUGH a'dAMA'wA. 587 
iron ), Tsauni, Kola (" uri-n-sarauta," (c the seat of [the 
old] government," where all the rulers of the country are 
buried), Sofo-n-gari, Gambana, Lajewa, Zibbek, Mashe- 
ma, Bangarati, Sirko, Gambaki, Kawada, Machi-n-kaya, 
Dingaya, gan-n-Mallinzaki, Hirfi, U'ngoba or Ngoba, 
Gadaraima, Kondoko, Rasawu, Korko, Barring, Manako, 
Wodufa, Tsogu, Ktirnokay, Lafiya gari-n-Berdagungome 
(da-n-ghaladima Shera), Lanzedoguwa, Ajangara, Zammaga, 
Fogo, Sawi sheli-n-jika-n-Mallinzaki (the residence of the 
grandson of Mallinzaki), Yayu, Dagaro, Ktikoki, Bilka- 
chuwa, Fari-n-rtiwa, Kosome, A'rzamu, Yakase, A'fFotu, 
Uzum Zandan, Jegas, Cliokkoti, Chafago, Degagito, Gali- 
namari, Kadiya, Jandogo, Zagaiia, Goran, Nasarawa, Killa. 
I now subjoin the short itinerary from Shera to Yakoba, 
west a little south. 
1st day. Between one and two o'clock p.m. arrive at 
Fagam, a place larger than Shera, surrounded with 
a clay wall, being the frontier-town of the province 
of Kano towards the S.E. The country is flat. 
2nd. About eleven o'clock a.m. arrive at Ganjuwa, a large 
open place belonging to the province of Bauchi. 
All the houses, or rather huts, are built of reed, only 
that of the governor consisting of clay. The 
country mountainous, with many springs and pools 
of water ; large numbers of palm-trees. 
3rd. About aser arrive at Yakoba; the country moun- 
tainous. 
IV. — Collection of Itineraries passing through the 
various Districts of A'damawa. 
In endeavouring to describe the country by means of this 
net of routes, traversing it in every direction and thus con- 
trolling each other, it will be the best course first to con- 
nect Yola, the furthest point which I have been able to lay 
