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APPENDIX I. 
I. — List of toions and villages situated along the hank of the 
chief trunk of the river Tsa-here or Mdyo-manghoy from 
Dire upivards to Sansdndi, This branch is the north- 
westerly one ; the other, which Caillie navigated, is the south- 
easterly, and is called Bara-Tsa. 
Dire, a very important place, one of the eldest settlements 
of the Songhay in this quarter, situated at the point of junc- 
tion of two branches which have separated from each other in 
the lake Debu.* 
Tindirma, one of the original seats of the Songhay, by 
some regarded as the original seat of the whole tribe. That 
portion of them called Sahena were especially settled here. 
It is now principally the residence of the Choki, who 
formerly were settled in Gundam. With regard to its im- 
portance in former times as the capital of the province of 
Kurmina, see Vol. IV. p. 420. A little distance from the 
bank of the river lies Gitigatta, and on the island in the 
river the locality called " Al Mohalla," probably from having 
been once the spot where part of the Mohalla, or the army of 
the Moroccains, remained encamped. At Tindirma, the 
branch of Gundam separates from the main trunk of the 
river. 
Hamma-koira. 
Nyafunke. 
Sibo. This is evidently the town Seebi where Mungo Park 
is said to have made some stay on his voyage from Jenni to 
Timbuktu. (Clapperton's Second J ourney. Appendix, p. 334.) 
* From Dire, down the river towards Timbuktu, my informant 
indicated several places which neither I myself nor Caillie have 
mentioned on our passage down the river : Buram, a large village 
(Kora, Danga), Semsaro (Koiretago), Lenga, all on the south 
side ; Segaliye, on the north side of the river ; an adabay, or 
hamlet, belonging to Buram, E'luwa, on an island ; Hendibango. 
