kasamba'ra to tishi't. 
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one day S. from Jinni, and who, together with the Bambara, 
fight against the Fulbe. Their former chief was Chong We- 
led Musa. 
The hostilities carried on between the inhabitants of the 
northern banks of the Niger, or Dhiuliba, as a whole, on the 
one side, and the Fulbe of Hamda- Allahi on the other, exercise 
their influence also upon the relation which exists between 
the Arabs of Baghena and the Bdmbara, which therefore at 
present cannot but be a friendly one. 
On the whole, the country of Baghena, which well de- 
serves the attention of Europeans, is not less capable of fixed 
settlements, than it is fit for rehala life, or nomadic wandering, 
although it is not suited for the camel. Besides cultivation of 
dukhn, or, as it is here called, bishen, or heni, and dhurra or 
saba, wild rice is procured from the numerous swamps formed 
in the rainy season, as is also the case in the whole of El 
Hodh. The trees most common in Baghena are the tedum 
or baobab, at least in the southern districts, the roma or 
liyene, the chigfit, the baferewa, and the aurnal ; of the 
date-tree I have spoken above. 
Z. — Route from Kasambdra to Tisliit^ or SJietu, from the in- 
formation of El Imam, a native of the latter place. 
1st day. Mabruk, a large well, or hasi. 
5th. Ajwer, a large and much frequented well, distant a 
long day's journey W. from the celebrated well 
Bir Nwal." 
As far as Ajwer, the direction is almost N., but here it 
becomes N.W. 
10th. Agerijit, in former times nothing but a well, but in 
the year 1850, owing to a civil war having broken 
out in Tishit, one section of the Welad Bille left 
their home and settled near this well, where they 
built a small ksar or village. Here the direction of 
the road changes to the W. 
