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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LV. 
neck, repeating my name several times. In fact his 
whole behaviour changed from this moment ; and 
although he at times begged a few things from me, 
and did not procure me very generous treatment from 
the governor, yet, on the whole, he behaved friendly 
and decently. He asked me repeatedly why I had 
not gone to Kan6 ; but I told him that I had nothing 
to do with Kano, that in conformity with my promise 
I had come to Katsena, and that here I should make 
all my purchases, in order to undertake the journey 
to Sokoto from this place under the protection of its 
governor Mohammed Bello. Now, I must confess 
that I had another motive for not going to Kan6 
besides this ; for the vizier of B6rnu had made it a 
condition that I should not go to Kano, as my journey 
to the Fiilbe would else be displeasing to himself and 
the sheikh, by interfering with their policy, and I had 
found it necessary to consent to his wishes, although I 
foresaw that it would cause me a heavy loss, as I might 
have bought all the articles of which I was in want 
at a far cheaper rate in the great central market of 
Negroland than I was able to do in Katsena. 
I staid outside the town until the following morning, 
while my quarters in the town were preparing. There 
was an animated intercourse along my place of en- 
campment, between the old capital and the new place 
Wagoje, which the governor had founded two years 
before ; and I received the compliments of several 
active Fulbe, whose expressive countenances bore 
sufficient evidence of the fact that their habits were 
