Chap. LXXXII. ROUTE FKOM WURNO'. 
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Shdura*, a walled town, strengthened by three 
moats, tolerably well inhabited, and adorned with 
fine groups of trees, among which some large gonda 
trees, or Erica Papaya^ were distinguished. The town 
belongs to the district of Edba, which forms the title 
of its governor, who is called Serki-n-Rdba. He was 
a decent sort of man, and treated us hospitably, a 
dish of fish proving a great luxury to me in this in- 
land region, and bearing testimony to the consider- 
able size of a large pond which borders the town on 
the east side, being apparently in connection with the 
gulbi-n-Raba, or Bugga. The evening was clear, and 
I enjoyed for a long time the scenery of the place in 
the fine moonlight, but the governor would not honour 
me with his company, being greatly afraid of the bad 
influence of the moon, the efi^ect of which he thought 
far more injurious than that of the sun. 
After a night greatly disturbed first by Friday, 
mosquitoes, and then by a heavy gale, October eth. 
we pursued our journey, entering a fine open country, 
which was intersected further on by a broad faddama, 
and beyond that, presented several ponds half-dried 
* I here give a list of the towns and villages lying along this 
river on the side of Dan-Shaura: — Dogawa, Tungammaza, Tun- 
sumawa, Tofa, Gida-n-dan-Damawa, Gida-n-Laudam, Basansan, 
Gida-n-Somaba, G. Magaji, Gelgil, G. Atafiru, Jan Tumbagebe, 
Birni-n-Dangeda, Gajere, Dorowa-n-birni, Dakurawa, Kundus, 
Rara. Between the town of Raba, from whence this river has 
received the name Gulbi-n-Raba, and Sokoto, there are the places : 
Kurfi, Toronka, Kawasa, Durbel, Dunguji, Tunga-duwatsu, Ka- 
banga (Ungwa Ibrahima) Gari-n-serki-n-A^zena. 
