[111]Von Bary’s Diary (French edition), p. 183, etc.
[112]The available data are in the hands of the author, if some more fortunate traveller can check and examine the place.
[113]The “El Hakhsas,” Barth: op. cit., Vol. I. p. 416.
[114]The extremes in variation, for the first rains of sufficient volume to fill stream beds of a certain size with flood water, are recorded by von Bary east of Bagezan on 3rd June, 1877, and by Barth in Northern Air on 1st September, 1850. Both these dates seem to be exceptional.
[115]This, and not T’efira, is presumably the point south of Auderas where Barth saw “natron” encrustations on the ground (see Vol. I. p. 389). Salt or “ara” is collected at T’efira further east, but Barth would not have described “entering” the Buddei valley after seeing the “natron,” for the road past Auderas to T’efira winds down the Buddei valley.
[116]This is the vowel which in English words “often,” “anon,” “until,” may be written as o, e, a, or u.
[117]Cf. Barth, Vol. I. p. 350, and von Bary, p. 169, on the Kel Ataram of Auderas. The people of this village were simply “People of the West” for the inhabitants of Ajiru in Eastern Air, where von Bary was living.
[118]As Barth would have it: op. cit., Vol. I. p. 339.
[119]Cf. Barth, op. cit., Vol. I. pp. 339 and 347.
[120]The Cortier 1/500,000 map shows a large affluent to the right bank joining the Auderas valley below the village. This is incorrect: a small affluent called the Mafinet joins at the point shown, but the valley purporting to be the upper part of the Mafinet valley is the Tagharit valley, which falls into the Ben Guten, and not into the Auderas basin. The Cortier map is generally somewhat incorrect in this area, especially in regard to the position of Mount Dogam.