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CHAP. LVI. 
JOURNEY FROM K AT SENA TO SOKOTO. 
The whole town was in motion when we left ; Monday, 
for the governor himself was to accompany March 21st 
us for some days' journey, as the whole country was 
exposed to the most imminent danger, and further 
on he was to send a numerous escort along with us. 
It was a fine morning, and, though the rainy season 
had not yet set in in this province, many of the trees 
were clad already in a new dress, as if in anticipation 
of the fertilizing power of the more favoured season. 
The hajilfj had begun, about the commencement of 
March, to put out new foliage and shoots of young 
fruit ; and the dor6wa or Parkia exhibited its blossoms 
of the most beautiful purple, hanging down to a great 
length from the branches. The dorowa, which is en- 
tirely wanting in the whole of Bornu, constitutes here 
the chief representative of the vegetable kingdom. It 
is from the beans of this tree that the natives prepare 
the vegetable cakes called "dodowa," with which 
they season their food.* Next to this tree another 
one, which I had not seen before, called here " runhu," 
and at present full of small yellow blossoms, was most 
common. 
* See the description which Clapperton gives of the manner 
in which these cakes are prepared. (Denhain and Clapperton's 
Travels, ii. p. 125.) 
