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the inhabitants of which are Fulbe and Kanuri, not 
far from the eastern bank of the Faro, on a shallow 
branch, backwater, or "chokel" of the river, while 
the Benuwe is a good day's journey northward. The 
country is flat, with sandy soil, and with small 
eminences of rock projecting here and there. Ar- 
rive at noon ; direction west. In going from Bun- 
dang to Lamorde, a good day's journey S.S.W., 
keeping along the " chokel " on which the place lies, 
you pass first by U'ro Buggel, the former residence 
of Sambo Jikera, then by Turawa ("the white 
people"), the residence of Mohammed Jobdi, then 
by Bayaga, and then by Yaske, a Batta village, 
where the road from Gurin to Lamorde joins our 
road, and where the Faro, from a sweep westward, 
once more approaches the track. 
22nd. Gurin, formerly the capital of A 7 damawa,but which was 
not regularly walled. It lies on the western bank 
of the Faro, which here, from a more southerly direc- 
tion, turns eastward, running towards Bundang, from 
whence again it makes a sweep towards the north : 
in the dry season Gurin does not lie directly on the 
river, but on a backwater called 66 Guddi." People 
crossing from Bundang to Gurin therefore, a distance 
in a straight line of perhaps only five or six miles, 
as they drift a great deal with the current, report 
the river to be of an immense breadth, and more 
important than the Benuwe. A little lower down 
from Gurin, the Faro is joined by the mayo Beti. 
23rd. If you take the northern road from Gurin to Yola, 
you pass by Farda ; if the southern one, you stay a 
night in Beti (Binti ?), a Pullo settlement lying on 
the eastern side of a rivulet (called after it the 
mayo Binti ?). Arrive in Beti about three o'clock 
P.M. 
24th. By the north road Yebbolewo, on the west bank of Mayo 
