TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES 
IN 
AFRICA. 
CHAPTER LIIL 
DEPARTURE FOR TIMBUKTU. — THE HILLY NORTH-WESTERN PRO- 
VINCES OF BORNU. 
The death of Mr. Overweg, happening at a period 
when the prospects of the mission just began to 
brighten, induced me to relinquish my original plan 
of once more trying my fortune in Kanem and on 
the N.E. shores of the Ts&d, as an undertaking too 
dangerous for me in my isolated position, and the 
results of which could not reasonably be expected to 
be great, even with the protection of a small force, in 
a disturbed country, in comparison with the dangers 
that accompanied it. Besides, such was the charac- 
ter of the horde of the Welad Sliman and their mode 
of warfare, that after having received the sanction 
of the British Government for my proceedings, and 
being authorised by them to carry out the objects 
of the mission as at first projected, I could scarcely 
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