My stay in the country, of course, was too short to allow me to speak more decidedly respecting their moral qualities. The currency of pieces of iron as money, which Denham observed in his time[36], has long been abolished; and at present the standard money of the place is cotton strips of from two to three inches in width. With regard to the language of the people of Logón, Denham has committed a great mistake in supposing that it was identical with the language of Bagírmi; for though what he heard was really the language of Bagírmi, which is spoken to a great extent by the natives, yet their original language, which is spoken exclusively, among the people themselves, is quite distinct, being nearly related to that of the people of Músgu. They call their language kélakú Lógone. As far as I became acquainted with it, the pronunciation is very difficult, on account of the many aspirated sounds, especially that of “kh” or “th;” and in this respect it has some resemblance to the English. [Footnote 26: Bulletin de la Société de Géogr. de Paris, s. III. vol. xi. p. 30; vol. xiv. p. 159.] [Footnote 27: This word is only another form of the name which the Yédiná give to the boat, viz. “pum.”] [Footnote 28: It is very remarkable and interesting that the date-palm, in all these countries as far as Bagírmi, goes by the Háusa name “debíno,” from which circumstance it is plain that it was first introduced into that part of Negroland. Even the Fúlbe of Sókoto have no other name for it, while those of Ádamáwa call it after the tree of the native date, viz. the addwa or _Balanites Ægyptiaca_. But the Sónghay and Mába or Wadáy languages have quite independent names for this palm.] [Footnote 29: I have however to observe that the Kúrí sometimes bring native corn as far as Búgomán.] [Footnote 30: I think it has no connection with the river or lágham, else they could not call it “lághame Lógone.”] [Footnote 31: The name is not mentioned in the annals of Edrís Alawóma.] [Footnote 32: I will here give a list of the Ibálaghwáns, as far as they came to my knowledge. Íba-Gáre, Íba-Kyári, Íba-ʿOthmán, Íba-Káder, Íba- Abú, Íba-Ádem, Íba-Sʿaíde, Íba-Yáhia, Íba-Herdége.] [Footnote 33: Appendix III., No. II.] [Footnote 34: The reader will see that my judgment in this respect is very different from that which Denham passed on them (_Travels and Discoveries_, i., p. 237.); but Denham never visited Kanó, and had no standard for judging what was good and what was not.] [Footnote 35: The Kanúri call it “béli,” the lógodé Lógone “bél.”] [Footnote 36: Denham, i. p. 238.] [Illustration: Drawn by J. M. Bernatz, from a Sketch by Dr. Barth. M. & N. Hanhart, lith. et impt. LOGÓN BÍRNI. August, 17th. 1852.] CHAP. XLVIII. THE TWO RIVERS. — ENTRANCE INTO BAGÍRMI. [Sidenote: March 16th.]