News from Mándará—Áfagé—Thieves forced to fight—The Sweet Sorghum—Variations of Temperature—Shallow Watercourses—Subjection of Mándará—Extensive Rice-fields—Hard Ground—Elephants—The Court of Ádishén—The Army on the March—The Súmmoli—The Army badly off—Entering the Músgu Country—Industry pillaged—Native Architecture—Affinity of the Músgu—Their Chief Places—The Adventurous Chieftain—Ádishén—Christmas Events. CHAPTER XLIV. THE COUNTRY OF THE SHALLOW RIVERS—WATER-PARTING BETWEEN THE RIVERS BÉNUWÉ AND SHÁRÍ 573 The Deléb-palm—New Features—Worship of Ancestors—Cut off from the Army—Spoil and Slaughter—Alarm and Cowardice—Músgu Weapons—The Túburi not attacked—Ngáljam of Démmo—Destruction—New Year—Pagan Chiefs and Priests—Fine Landscape—The River of Logón—Singular Water Combat—The Túburi and their Lake—The Swampy Character of the Ngáljam—The River again—Water Communication—Plucky Pagans—Balls and Stones—Consequences of Slave Hunts—Penetrating Southward. CHAPTER XLV. RETURN TO BÓRNU 592 Another Alarm—Policy of Negroland—Cattle Indigenous or Imported—Another District Plundered—The Músgu Slave—Narrow Escape—Attack by Bees—African Netherlands—Miseries of Slave Hunts—Barren Country—Residence of Kábishmé—Native Architecture—Ground-plan of a Dwelling—Amount of Booty—Wáza—Encampment at Wáza—Re-arrival at Kúkawa. LIST OF PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. LIST OF PLATES. KANEMBU CHIEF (See Chaps., xi. xli.) _Frontispiece_ MAP OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA INDICATING DR. BARTH’S ROUTE _facing page_ 1 KASR GHURIÁN ” ” 22 MÚRZUK ” ” 75 KANÓ FROM MOUNT DALA ” ” 289 MUSGU ” ” 575 ENCAMPMENT IN THE FOREST ” ” 577 INTERIOR OF A MUSGU DWELLING ” ” 584 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. Picturesque Fountain 13 General View of Enshéd eʾ Sufét 16 The Monument 17 Aboriginal Structures 27 Kasr Dóga 32 Another Pair of Pillars, with Slab and Sculpture of a Dog 33 Curious Sculpture 36 General View of Mizda 45, 46