HADEJIA A YAU!
TRAVEL AND DISCOVERY IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA..... By Heinrich Barth 1856. Chapter XXVI. Page 196.
TRAVEL AND DISCOVERIES OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA... BY HENRICH BARTH.
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With regard to the Empire of Sokoto, there happened at this time a catastrophe which while it was an unmistakable proof of the devility of that vast agglomeration of provinces, proved at the same time extremely favourable to Bornu; For on the first day of August the news arrived that Buwari or Bukhari the exile Governor of Hadejia, who had conquered the town and killed his Brother Ahmadu, had thrown back with great loss, an immense army sent against him by Aliyu, the Emperor of Sokoto, under the command of his prime minister Abdu Gedado, and composed of the forces of the provinces of Kano, Bauchi,Katagum, Marmar and Buberu, when several hundreds were said to have perish in the Komadugu, or the great fiumara of Bornu.
TRAVEL AND DISCOVERY IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA..... By Heinrich Barth 1856. Chapter XXVI. Page 196.
Hadeja, a large town surrounded with a beautiful and very strong double clay wall, and well inhabited, the courtyards being inclosed with clay walls, but containing only reed huts.
The inhabitants employ themselves exclusively in warlike expe¬ditions, and have no industry; but nevertheless there are still to be seen here a few dyeing-pots, marking the eastern limit of this branch of industry. On the south side of the town is a kogi, or komadugu, with a stream of running water in the rainy season,but with only stagnant pools in summer, along which a little wheat is cultivated. It is generally called Wani.
6th. Garu-n-ghabbes, a middle-sized walled town, the first place of Bornu, on this side 3 with a good deal of cultivation around. Though without importance in other respects, it is so in an his¬torical point of view ; for this place being identical with the town Biram ta ghabbes, mentioned above, is regarded as the oldest place of the seven original settlements of the Hausa nation.
