a province of Central Africa, forming the north-western frontier of Bornu, and extending from about 13° 20' to 14° N. Lat., and from 4° 30' to 10° 50' E. Long. It has belonged alternately to Houssa and Bornu, and is at present subject to the latter. Damagram is a country of great fertility, but "not a 10,000th part of the soil is cultivated," the inhabitants deriving their chief subsistence from rapine and the proceeds of man-stealing. Most of the productions of Sudan seem to be found in Damagram. Mr Richardson, on his route through the province, saw the ghussub cultivated to some extent; and in some localities wheat, cotton, indigo, tobacco, onions, pepper, date-trees (bearing twice a-year), caster-oil tree, henna, potatoes (dankali), a species of palm bearing a large fruit (gondia) like the melon melon, gourds, noggs, and gwarya, which last are two species of potatoes. The domesticated cattle are horses, asses, oxen, sheep, and goats, and a few camels. The wild animals are chiefly lions, wild boars and oxen, hyenas, jackals, and vultures and lizards in great numbers. Iron is found in the rocks of Sudan. The former capital was a town of the same name, but Zinder, which sometimes gives name to the province, is now the chief town. (See Petermann's Account of the Expedition to Central Africa, 1854.)