INDEX. 
679 
Their important mission, 491. Along 
upper Niger, 623. Their policy in Tim- 
buktu, V. 8 J. Tribes in Sokoto, 528. 
Fulbe inhabiting suburbs of larger towns, 
iii. 127; v, 330. Their way of preparing 
butter, ii. 230. 
Fulbe huts figured, iv. 325. 
Fulbe of A'damawa, their famous expe- 
dition to the far South, ii. 520. 
Fumbina, extent of, ii, 503. Described, 
504. Various tribes, 510 — 514. 
Funeral dance at I'sge, ii. 535. 
Fura village, iv. 465. 
Fura, favourite drink, mode of drinking, i, 
414. 
Futa country, chief divisions of, v. 522. 
Gabata, sacred site of, iv. 63. 
Gabberi and its inhabitants, iii. 605. 
Ga-bero, description of the tribe, v. 222. 
Their hospitality, 225. Divisions of the 
tribe, 225, note. 
Ga-b'ibi tribe, v. 242. 
Gabore hamlet, v. 385. 
Gagliuffi, Mr., British agent at Murzuk, 
i. 165, 171 ; ii. 171. 
Gakoira town, site of, iv. 388. 
Galuia village and watercourse, v. 521. 
Gamerghu district, ii. 360. Tribe nearly 
related to the Mandara, 362. 
Gando empire, climate and extent of the, 
iv. 203. Rulers of, 527. 
Gando town described, iv. 195; v. 347. 
Average rain-fall in, v. 329. 
Gaoga, kingdom of, iii. 426. Reason of its 
power, 445. 
Garbo village, iv. 234 ; v. 311. 
Gareji village, ii. 174. 
Gargara, iron used in Bagirmi obtained 
from, iii. 597. 
Gar- Sara described, iii. 609. 
Garu, an island-town in the Niger, v. 
273. 
Gasi-Ghi'ima, great market-place of Fer- 
magha, v. 483. 
Gatara village, v. 308. 
Gaumache hamlet, iv. 207. 
Gauri town, notice of, iii. 616. 
Gawasu village, interview with the sultan of 
Sokoto, iv. 133. 
Gazawa, independent pagan town, ii. S3. 
Places lying round it, 35. Fortifications 
and markets, 37. Chief men, iv. 92. 
Gebi valley described, i. 295. 
Gellu town, v. 497. 
Gerkl, town and its inhabitants, ii. 1 62 ; v. 
372. 
Gesgi valley of Kanem, iii. 95, 
Geshiya town and its inhabitants, iv. 36. 
Gesma town and its inhabitants, iv. 88. 
Gezawa, town of province of Kano, and its 
inhabitants, ii. 152. 
Ghadames, inhabitants of, great merchants, 
settled in Katsena, ii. 57. Kano, 110, 
115. Timbuktu, iv. 481, 616 ; v. 33. 
Ghaladima 'Omar, interview with, ii. 192. 
Ghambaru, brick ruins of, ii. 225. Fa- 
vourite residence of the former kings of 
Bornu, iii. 517. 
Ghana, or Ghanata, kingdom, historical 
notices of, iv. 579, 584, 585. 
Ghariya el gharbiya, Roman gateway at, 
i. 126; and Arab tower, 129. 
Ghariya e' sherkiya, i. 132. 
Ghasr-eggomo, former capital of Bornu 
(see Birni), ruins of described, iv. 22. 
Ghat, arrival at, i. 221. Description of, 
237. 
Ghergo, Songhay town on the Niger and in- 
habitants, V. 151. 
Ghurian and its villages, i. 43-49. Hatred 
against the Turks, 48. Subterranean 
dwellings, ib. 
Gida-n-Alla village, v. 371. 
Giraffe, home of the, i. 520. Rare in the 
populous districts, in Musgu, ii. 359 ; iii. 
162. Frequent on the Niger, v. 199, 254. 
Gilmiram, wells of, ii. 5. 
Gober, princes of, iv. 526. Connection of 
the noblest family with the Copts, i. 336. 
The Goberawa once masters of A'sben, ib. 
Gogo, Gagho, or Gao, capital of the Son- 
ghay empire, noticed, iv. 580, 583, 585. 
Conquered by the Awelimmid, iv. 628. 
Town and inhabitants described, v. 215. 
Survey of the Niger near, 235. 
Gold, the chief commercial staple of Tim- 
buktu, V. 21. Import of gold into 
Kano, ii. 142. Gold trade in former 
times in Kukia, iv. 552, 584. Gold 
found in Benuwe, ii. 470. Rivers con- 
taining gold, iv. 557. 
Gona, locality on the Niger, v. 239. 
Gonda trees {Erica Papaya)^ ii. 12, 87, 447, 
623; iii. 138; v. 330. Fruit of, 60; iv. 
209, passim. Wild Gonda bush, ii. 93, 
368; v. 293. Its delicious fruit, ii. 401. 
Gongungo village, iv. 274. 
Gonja, (country of the kola-nut) routes to, 
iv. 556. Trade to, v. 29. 
Goreba fruit (see Dum-palm), ii. 13. 
Gorebi torrent, iv. 261. 
Gorgom tOAvn, iv. 88. 
Gosuwa town, ii. 174. 
Gote district, v. 280. 
Government : a feudal form spread from 
Melle over great part of Negroland, iv. 
588. In Bornu, eclectic, with a very strong 
aristocratical element, ii. 270. In Fulbe 
states more republican, 499. Of Bagirmi, 
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