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to the E. This whole country is pillaged and laid 
waste by continual forays owing to the feud between 
the Benaber or Bambara and the Fullan. 
3rd, Akor, a deserted place or ksar. 
4th. Encamp in a spot in the wilderness, having passed the 
heat of the day in a place called by the Arabs 
Akumbu jemel ; leave the considerable place Ktila, 
inhabited by Bambara, to the W. 
5th. Encamp in the wilderness. 
6th. Sare-bala, a place formerly inhabited by the Welad 
'Alush and the Idelebo, but at present deserted. 
7th. Gello, a village in the neighbourhood of a large "dhaye," 
or pond, two days from Yovvaru, at present inhabited 
by the Teghdaust. 
8th. Bir el Haj 'Omar, a well with an occasional encampment 
of the Zuwaye. The road, which in the first part of 
the journey was almost from S. to N., here turns more 
to the east. 
9th. Lere, a village, or ksar, of the Welad Zayem, an Arab 
tribe dependent on the Fullan. A branch of the 
river skirts its east and south side. Even in the dry 
season, immense sheets of water are here collected, 
as is the case with the whole of Fermagha. The 
latter, which comprises this whole tract of country, 
is a larger province, and better inhabited than 
Atissa. 
10th. Gasi e' Saheli, or Gasi-Jerma, distant one and a half day's 
march to the north from the more important place, 
Gasi-Ghuma or Gasi-Lumo, the great market-place of 
the " killa,"or coarse coloured stuff of mixed cotton and 
wool, and the second place of the province of Fermagha, 
next to Yowaru. Gasi-Ghuma lies on the backwaters 
of the river, running parallel with the main branch 
between Lake Debu and Gundam, and joining the 
river near Saiga, while a branch runs from here to 
Gasi- J erma, and thence to Lere. Gasi- J erma has no 
