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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LIII. 
at my disposal. But, very luckily, a handsome sum of 
money was on the road to Zinder ; I also expected to 
receive at that place a few new instruments, as the 
greater part of my thermometers were broken, and I 
had no instrument left for making hypsometrical 
observations. 
An inroad on a large scale, of a tribe of the 
Tawarek, or Kindin, as they are called in B6rnu, 
under their chief, Miisa, into the province of Miiniy6, 
through which lay my road to Zinder, delayed my 
departure for a considerable time. This inroad of 
the hordes of the desert claimed a greater interest 
than usual, especially when considered in connection 
with the facts which I have set forth on a former 
occasion*, the Taw&rek or Berbers having originally 
formed an integral part of the settled population of 
B<5rnu. These Diggera of Miisa, who appear to have 
occupied these tracts at a former period, had evidently 
formed the firm intention of settling again in the 
fine valleys of the province of Miiniyo, which are so 
favourable to the breeding of camels, that even when 
the country was in the hands of the Bornu people 
they used to send their herds there. 
At length, after a long series of delays, the road 
to the west became open, and I took leave of the 
sheikh on the 19th of November, in a private audi- 
ence, none but the vizier being present. I then found 
reason to flatter nryself that, from the manner in 
* See Vol. IT. p. 272. 
