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Dhahabi-koira, called after a sherif belonging to the family 
of Mulay el Dhehebi. 
Gummo. 
A'tara. 
Tongomare. 
U'ro. 
Yowaru. In crossing from Yowaru the next branch, and 
leaving Guram on one side, you reach Zinzo or Jinjo, 
or Gijo, as it is called, in four or five hours. This is another 
of the eldest seats of the Songhay, and probably the place 
from whence Islam spread in this quarter, there being here 
the sepulchre of a venerated saint called Mohammed el 
Kaberi, belonging to the Idaw el Haj. It is not impossible 
that this is the place of pilgrimage to which Scott the 
sailor went as a captive by way of the Giblah, crossing the 
lake.* In the neighbouring hamlet, Togga, also, is the 
tomb of a holy man called Morimana Baka. There is an- 
other tradition current in Zinzo, of a saint of the name of 
Elfa Zakkariya, who is said to have visited this place at a 
time when no village existed, nothing but a cavern being 
then inhabited. 
S.E. of Zinzo, at some little distance from lake Debu lies 
AVi. The Debu is so shallow during the dry season, that 
the native boats can only proceed with great difficulty along 
the main channel, and often stick fast entirely. In the dry 
season the natives ford it by wading through the water. 
* Edinburgh Philological Journal, vol. iv. p. 35, et seq. There is 
no such district hereabouts as " El Sharray ; " but I have not the 
slightest doubt that this name is nothing but a corruption of the 
term " e' sherk," with which the Moors of that region indicate the 
south. There are some inaccuracies in Scott's account which 
might cause suspicion of his sincerity ; and among these is the 
circumstance, that he mentions as living on the lake the Moorish 
tribes of the E^rgebat and Sekarna, both of which live in the nor- 
thern districts. But it is very remarkable that he should call that 
tomb by the name of " Saidna Mohammed." 
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