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Witli very few exceptions the Barburr towns showed me 

 more hospitahty than any others in Northern Nigeria. They 

 wanted to load me with presents and were most helpful and 



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kind in every way. The King of Gulani seemed almost 

 pitiably afraid of the white man at first, and there was great 

 excitement in the evening when the theodolite was set up 

 in order to take observations of the stars. Probably it was 

 owing to my fame as a Juju man, caused by this sight, that 

 such a good reception was given to me by the rest of the 

 Barburr towns. It was a great pleasure to see from near 

 this place Mount Zogabi, the peak for which we were making. 

 When going out as usual to shoot something for supper, 

 at a town called Pupa I had great difficulty in preventing 



