THE SHEHU OF KUKAWA 



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made by Wilkinson and originally intended to go out among 

 the presents which the Prince of Wales took for the rajahs 



UAROBA, SIlEilU ijF BORXU 



on his recent tour in India. It was now beautifully set in 

 a hilt of worked silver, inscribed in Arabic, and beaten out of 

 Maria Theresa dollars from the Shehu's treasury. This I heard 

 afterwards from Jose, who was sent back subsequently 

 several times to Kukawa to obtain food when Talbot and I 

 were in camp at Kaddai on Lake Chad. As Jose talked 

 Hausa fluently, the Shehu made friends with him and let him 

 into his confidence a good deal further than would fall to the 

 lot of the ordinary stranger within his gates, however big a 



