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APPENDIX. 
from the Pullo conqueror Btiba, a man of the tribe 
of the Hillegawa, and his mother Jidda. The town, 
being strongly fortified and surrounded by a wall, 
with four gates, lies on the mayo Chubi, which joins 
the Benuwe. 
ii. Three different roads from Ray-Buba to Ribdgo, 
Direction north. 
(a.) The loesternmost. 
1st day. Bideng or Bidang, the place just before mentioned. 
2nd. Bongi, residence of the Pullo chief 'Omar Gari; cross 
the Benuwe. 
3rd. Saini, a Pullo settlement, residence of a chief called 
by my Kanuri informant, Mallem Febe, probably 
from his rich possessions of cattle, (( fe. " Before en- 
tering the place, cross the river Benuwe, which skirts 
its southern side. On the north side of the place is a 
high mountain. In this place the road from Ray 
to Ribago is joined by the general road from Gewe 
to Ribago, from Gewe to Dyllemi, about ten miles 
south along the eastern bank of the Benuwe, from 
Dyllemi to Bongi, passing by Doka, about eighteen 
miles, and from here Saini, at a short distance. 
4th. Gamfargo, a Pullo settlement ; short march. 
5th. Ribago, or perhaps more correctly, Ribado (" the 
prince's residence ") *, a large and important Pullo 
settlement, the residence of the powerful chief Bageri 
(Bu Bakr), and situated on a watercourse of some 
size, called by the Fulbe (( Mayo Gelangero," which 
joins the river Benuwe at a hamlet called (i Bmnde 
Hamraa Salatn," distant from Ribado two days' jour- 
ney, sleeping the first night in a village of the Dama, 
* Respecting this name, see what I have said above, p. 480. 
