A day's journey from Mandara is sufficient to make a razzia of slaves. Muzgu, a great Kerdi country, is three days' journey from Mandara.
Route from Kanou to Sakkatou.
From Kanou:
- Dal, three hours; several small villages, where tobes are dyed with indigo.
- Zalia (Zaria?), a walled town, containing some 20 or 30,000 souls, and residence of a sultan; one long day.
- Lariski, half a day; a small village.
- Gaia, eight hours; a large walled town, and residence of a sultan.
- Kafela, half a day; small village.
- Yakuba, five hours; a walled town, and residence of a sultan.
- Mukubi, three hours; a small town on the banks of a river, in which there is always water.
- Keskaua, half a day; a small village.
- Gala, eight hours; a walled town, and about the size of Zinder; residence of a sultan.
- Kusuri, one long day; a large walled town, and residence of a sultan. A river, having always water.
- Lokoui, one long day; a walled town, and residence of a sultan. The same river as at Kusuri.
- Sakkatou, eight hours. This journey is reckoned at twenty days.
Route from Taghajeet to Tuat.
From Taghajeet, on the northern frontiers of Aheer, to
- Asaiou, two days and a-half; water-station. (All the following names are water-stations, i.e. places where there are wells.)
- Logsur, three days and a-half; well: and so of the rest.
- Gharghar, three days; tents of wandering tribes of Tuaricks, principally Hagar and Maghatah.
- Yaizair, two days. From Gharghar to Tuat there are tents of Tuaricks along all this line of route.
- Aifak, one day.
- Tamaghaset, one day.
- Outur (or Utur), one day.
- Tairagin, one day.
- Tailak, two days.
- Ennimgal, three days.
- Tahalai-Oget, two days.
- Tisnu, two days.
- Minneat, two days.
- Tagajert, two days.
- Amasir, two days.
- Arak, two days.
- Tajmut, two days.
- Tegtamin, one day.
- Agmamar, two days.
- Loknaig, two days.
- Shab, two days.
- Hash-Lugwaira, one day.
- El-Gesser (Tuat), one day and a-half; a village.
- Ain-Salah, an hour or two.