che'bowa to la'me. 
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second about the same time in Mmdang, a place of the 
Mbana which has been ransacked by Mohammed Lowel, and 
on the third day reaching Binder about noon. Having 
passed the night in Bifara, the following day you leave 
Gego on the south side of the valley, and further on Gon- 
guduk, the birth-place of the father of the famous pagan 
chief Gonshome, on a small island in a lake or large pond 
formed by a stemming of the shallow waters of the river ; 
about noon you reach Lere. S.W. from Lere, and S.E. 
from Gonguduk, is another place called Fillengtenane. 
Going from Lere to Demrao, you pass the first night in 
Mayo Ledde, a Pullo settlement governed by Ardo Chidda, 
and situated on a watercourse of the same name, which a 
little further north joins the mayo Kebbi ; arrive here 
between two and three o'clock p.m. On the second day 
arrive before noon in Bore, a Pullo settlement, still proceed- 
ing along the faddama of the mayo Kebbi ; and about ten miles 
further on you come to the Tuburi or Tufuri, from whence 
Demmo is half a day N.E. But between Deinmo and Tu- 
buri the faddama is apparently interrupted, this rising ground 
of very little elevation forming the water-parting between the 
Niger and the Tsad.* 
vii. From Chebowa to Lame. 
1st day. Ngong, a district consisting of two large villages 
inhabited by Fulbe and pagans, and the residence of 
a chief called Njebbo. The country level; arrive 
* Mr. Vogel, who visited the Musgu country in the rainy season, 
1854, and who was so fortunate as to reach the district of the 
Tufuri, found there a considerable sheet of water, which, very 
erroneously, he seems to regard as the feeder of the Benuwe, 
while in reality it was nothing but an expansion of the faddama. 
How can it be possible that such a district, quite close to another 
large river, should feed such a stream as the Benuwe ? 
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