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whom Rabeli once left in command at Dikwa while he was 

 away fighting the French on the Togbau hills. His son-in- 

 law made plans to desert to the French, but when Faderellah, 



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then a youth, heard of this treachery, he called on the soldiers 

 that were staunch to his father to follow him, and going 

 outside the town met the Sokoto in battle and killed him. 

 Afterwards Howa joined her brother in arms, and they 

 fought together in many battles, and she commanded a 

 party of horsemen in the great fight at Kusseri where Rabeh 

 was killed. Howa is said to have been a fine shot with the 

 rifle. She is now hving with her attendant girls in a nice 

 house at Fort Lamy as the pensioned prisoner of the French. 

 After staying a night at Gujba, I started on the 12th 

 to cover the waterless distance of thirty-four miles to Gabai- 

 Kalima. For this march we carried a supply of water in 



