4th. Talgín, a considerable open village. At no great distance from this place is a valley with date-trees. A man on foot can easily reach Talgín in two days from Berí, sleeping in Késkawa. From Talgín the direct road leads to Mʿawó in three days:— 1st. Mánigá, a place inhabited by Tebu and Kánembú, and situated, as it seems, on a creek of the lake. 2nd. A village inhabited by Tebu, under the authority of Kashélla Bacha, with a market of some importance, where a great many dates are sold. 3rd. Reach Mʿawó at sunset, after having passed the heat in an open valley-plain with date-trees. 5th. Vuli, or Fúli. From here another route leads to Mʿawó. 6th. Kúnunú. 7th. Kánaná. 8th. Forrom, a place on _terra firma_, not to be confounded with the island of the same name. 9th. Ngíllewá. 10th. Medí. 11th. Tághghel. I will here only just mention that Tághghel cannot be identical with Denham’s Tangalia, because the latter was situate about one day’s journey south (see Denham, vol. i. p. 265.[69]), or rather S.W. from the Bahr el Ghazál, and Tághghel lies a day and a half to the north of it. III.—THE BAHR EL GHAZÁL, CALLED “BURRUM” BY THE KÁNEMBÚ, AND “FÉDE” BY THE TEBU GURʿAÁN. All the accounts which I received with regard to this much talked-of valley, which it had been our ardent desire to visit, agreed in the very remarkable statement, that its inclination was not from the desert towards the lake, but from the lake towards the desert. All my informants stated that it is now dry, but that less than a hundred years ago it formed the bed of a river or channel opening a communication by water between the Tsád and Búrgu. Indeed some people asserted that there was still living a very old man who, in his early youth, had made this journey by water. The spot where this very large wádí, now dry and densely clothed with trees, joins the Tsád, is near the south side of a place called ʿAlimarí, distant one day and a half from Tághghel, in a southerly direction. Start from Tághghel, sleep at Kirchímma, before noon arrive at ʿAlimarí. But at present this connection between the lake and the valley is said to be blocked up by sandhills near a spot called Súggera, or Mezrák, by the Arabs, which prevents the water of the lake, even in its highest state, from entering into the Burrum. However, more inward, another basin is here formed, which is occasionally called Hédebá. FROM ʿALIMARÍ TO MOÍTÓ. 1st day. Kedáda, a large place, entirely inhabited by runaway slaves, who have asserted their liberty. 2nd. Kédigi, inhabited by La Sálʿa, or el Asʿale’ Arabs. 3rd. Moíto (see Appendix VIII.) ʿALIMARÍ TO KÁRNAK LÓGONE, TWO AND A HALF DAYS.