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brother of the governor of Meso and Badeshi, in an 
open valley plain, and with a small watercourse on 
the west side. 
6th. Gider, the place above mentioned, inhabited by pagans 
and Fulbe, and skirted by a watercourse, which is 
said to be joined by three others near a place called 
Kolla, and to run towards Mayo Kebbi. Gider is 
properly a district comprising four villages situated on 
the tops of mountains. There are two roads from 
Peske to Gider, one more direct, leading straight 
through the mountainous wilderness in an easterly 
direction, while another, passing by a place called 
Yaji, forms an angle. Gider is about eight miles 
north from Bainga or Baila ; you may easily reach 
Gider in one day from Meso. 
7th. Sorayi, a place inhabited chiefly by pagans, and having 
but a few Fulbe, with a small watercourse on its 
south side ; arrive about noon, direction east. 
8th. Binder, a large town, inhabited by Fulbe, arrive in the 
morning. 
From Binder to Kafta-Baudi, the place mentioned above, 
is one day and a half N.N.E., spending the night in Gajam, 
where you arrive late in the afternoon, having passed on your 
road the village of Torok, then Goy, Kosere, and, further on, 
Busu ; arrive the next day, before the heat, in Kafta-Baudi. 
From Gider to Fdtawel. 
1st day. Encamp in the wilderness between two and three 
o'clock, p.m. ; country mountainous. 
2nd. Gazaba, the place mentioned above ; arrive early in 
the morning. The road, as far as this place E.N.E., 
now turns a little south from east. 
3rd. Miskin, a Pullo settlement in the plain ; arrive in the 
morning. 
