14 
TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LIII. 
great exertion, we dragged from some distance close 
to our tent, and thus enjoyed a very moderate degree 
of temperature in our open encampment. 
Saturday, I no w entered Koyarn, with its strag- 
November 27th. gUng v iu ageSj fog well- cultivated fields, 
and its extensive forests of middle-sized mimosas, 
which afford food to the numerous herds of camels 
constituting the wealth of this African tribe, who 
in former times, before the B6rnu dynasty was 
driven away from its ancient capital Njimiye by 
the rival family of the Bulala*, led a nomadic life 
on the pasture-grounds of Kanem. Having thus 
traversed the district called Wodoma, we encamped 
about noon, at a short distance from a well in the 
midst of the forest, belonging to a district called 
Gagada. The well was twenty-five fathoms deep, 
and was frequented during the night by numerous 
herds of cattle from different parts of the neigh- 
bourhood. 
While making the round in the night in order to 
see whether my people were on the look-out, as a 
great part of the security of a traveller in these 
regions depends on the vigilance exercised by night, 
I succeeded in carrying away secretly the arms from 
all my people, even from the warlike Ferjani Arab, 
which caused great amusement and hubbub when they 
awoke in the morning, and enabled me to teach them 
a useful lesson of being more careful for the future. 
* See Vol. II. p. 276. 
