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had a long conversation, in the course of which I endea- 
voured to make them understand that the whole of this 
extensive region, of which they knew only a small part, 
was " nothing but a large island, or giingu" giingu 
ghds in the great salt sea, just as the island of Rd- 
bara, opposite to us, was with regard to the Niger, or 
the Eghirreu, the only name by which this river is 
known to all the Berber tribes. They thus became 
aware that the dominion of the sea was of some im- 
portance, as it gave access to all these countries, 
w^hereas before they had only looked with a sort of 
contempt upon people living only, as they thought, 
in vessels on the sea ; and they w^ere not a little sur- 
prised when I told them that we were able to come 
up this river from the sea. They likewise had heard, 
and some of them perhaps had even seen, some- 
thing of that adventurous Christian who, fifty years 
ago, had navigated this river, and who, even after 
place, and moreover presents various forms, I will here insert it : — 
Ejiji, Y6 Kaina, Karre, Gowa, Kama, Kokishi, Bogdnne, Serere^ 
Aribis, Anrabera, Ajima,Terarwist, Korsejay, Tedafo, Ajata, Autel- 
makkoren, Tekankant, Insammen, E'm-n-taborak, Asija, Samgoy, 
Taghemart, Koyaga, Tausa, Burrum, Ten-ezede, Ha, Gogo, Borno, 
Bara, Enejeti, Tufadafor, Ebelbelen, A'nsongo. At the same 
time I learned the localities along the road from A'nsongo, or pro- 
bably from Bure to Dore, the chief place of Libtako, which is a track 
not unfrequently followed by the inhabitants of the districts on the 
left bank of the Niger: — Inbam, Ejerar, Tambelghu, Akhabelbel, 
E'nkulba, Wendu (Dore). Akhabelbel, or Khalebleb, is the name 
of a large lake or backwater, which is also touched at in going 
from Gogo to Dore, and which seems to deserve the full attention 
of European explorers. 
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