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in pits, and feed on their flesh. Plenty of parrots. 
Much dukhn or Pennisetum is cultivated, while the 
banana is the principal fruit. The sexes observe a 
distinction with regard to food, the women abstain- 
ing from fowls — perhaps on the same principle as 
the women, in some parts of India, are prohibited to 
eat things which are regarded as delicacies. They 
have no cotton, but use shells as money. The only 
weapons of the people are wooden spears, which 
they do not poison. The Baya are evidently iden- 
tical with Koelle's and Dr. Baikie's Bayong. The 
former of these two gentlemen has placed these 
people at far too great a distance into the interior. 
ii. From Yola to Bdya by way of Gurin. 
1st day. Gurin (see above), the former residence of the 
Pullo ruler of A'damawa. 
2nd. Lamorde, a considerable place, inhabited by pagans* ; 
arrive between one and two o'clock p. M. The road 
lies along the east bank of the river Faro, which is 
crossed, on first setting out from Gurin, by a ford 
in the dry season, but in a boat during the rains. 
The country plain ; mountains in the distance. You 
then turn a little west from south. On the west 
side of the river is Chamba, a large place situated at 
the foot of Mount Alantika, and inhabited by Fulbe, 
the residence of A'mba Sambo. 
3rd. A village of the pagan Bute, between one and two o'clock 
p. M. The country is mountainous on both sides 
of the road, the Faro being some distance off towards 
the west. As is the case throughout A'damawa, there 
is here abundance of honey. 
* This is rather curious, as the name is evidently a Pullo name 
meaning " the chiefs residence." 
