ROUTE TO KO'NCHA. 
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5th. About two o'clock p.m. encamp ; leave Lima at some 
distance south. 
6 th. Yola; in the morning. 
(c.) Route from Hamarruwa to Yola, by way of Koncha. 
This route makes a sharp angle. Direction, as far as 
Koncha, S.S.E., then KE. 
1st day. Reach the river Benuwe about noon, and cross it in 
the boats of the Kwana or Kwona ; sleep in Kwa- 
nari, a village on the south bank of the river. 
2nd. Reach a pagan village under the protection of the 
Eulbe, and therefore called by travellers Amana 
Barka, in a valley bordered by mountains ; it belongs 
to the dominion of A'mba Sambo, the governor of 
Chamba. 
3rd. About sunset encamp in the wilderness. 
4th. Zango-n-gharama (a name given to the locality by the 
Hausa traders, meaning 6( the toll-station "), a village, 
the master of which, called by the traders mai 
Chebchoma* ; levies a considerable tax on the cara- 
vans. "Masr," or the Egyptian durra, forms the 
principal food of the natives. 
5th. Reach the residence of the chief Nyagang. Formerly 
travellers used to make a stage in the village of 
Ardo Kesi, situated more to the north; but this 
custom has lately ceased. 
6th. Mount Chebchi, stretching out to a great length, and 
crossing the path ; encamp either on its summit or 
at its base, in the afternoon. 
7th. Rumde 'Omaru, a slave-village in the plain ; about 
noon. 
8th. Koncha (probably so called because it belonged origi- 
* Mai Chebchoma being the title of the chief, the original 
name of the place is probably Chebcho. 
