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APPENDIX.
 

III.—Chief Places in the Province of Kano, and  Routes

  diverging from Kano in various Directions, principally

  towards  the South.

  As for the province of Kano,  it comprises a very fertile

district  of  considerable  extent, with  the  following walled

towns:  Yerima, Gerki,  Zankara, Yafen, Ringim,  Dushi,

Gea, Gerko, Dell,  Udil,  Taura, Kura (a place particularly

famous  for the beauty of its  dyed cloth), Sakwa,  Bebeji,

Rimangado, Dawaki,  Godia, Bishi, Gezawa, Zakere, Killi,

Mejia, Mega, Merke, Takay, Sangaya (the place touched at

by  Clapperton), and the governor's two  pleasure towns

Gogem  and Faniso.

  Besides these walled towns, the most considerable places of

the province are as  follows:  Ungogo, Dawano, Zabenawa,

Geze, Wottari, Gora, Madobi, Salanta, Ammagwa,  Dadi-n-

dunia,  Gabezawa,  Doko, Kwinke-alla, Dangayame,  Gur-

jawa,  Zongonkilli,  Abegani,  Sakwa-n-Kumboto,  Zango,

Gezi, Ran  mallem, Rimi-n-Asbenawa, Dawaki, Gun6, Eano

(the town  mentioned in p. 72., as having formerly been the

seat of a kingdom or principality by itself), Tenneger, Kiyawa,

Kadwawa,  Takalafia, Katakata, Gazobi (a village  consisting

of scattered groups), Danzoshia,  Gulu, Gani, Tamberawa,

Dahasa, Gorzo, Karaye,  Kafi-n-Agur, Rukadawa, Boda,

Tariva,  Fa"ki, Koki, Dawaki-n~Dambambara (properly Da-n-

Bambara),   Katangerawe, Katanga-baba, Katanga-karama,

Katkazuba, Mallem, Kwiwa, Bunkori (a considerable  market¬

place, with much cultivation  of rice), Ya-n-kasari, Tuddum

Billane,  Bacherawa,  Yamata,  Deme,  Deme-n-da-n-karfl,

Tunfafi, Kuddadefawa, Zango-n-da-n-A7udu,  Paginkayi, Ja-

jira, Fofa,  Dangugwa, Zango  Mala A'udu, Jelli,  Madachi,

Makode, Konshi-n-gwarta, Yakase, Yola, and others.

  I will here add some of the chief routes connecting Kano

with the principal places  around,  and which will best  show

its central situation.  As for the routes to Kukawa, of which

I forwarded an account to Europe in 1851,1 shall omit them,