Chap. LVI. 
TOBACCO AND YAMS. 
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he himself was the emir el Mumenfn ; nay, he even 
told me that his liege lord was alarmed at the sight 
of a pistol. 
In order to avoid the enemy, we were Tuesday, 
obliged, instead of following a westerly di- March 22nd ' 
rection, to keep at first directly southward. The 
country through which our road lay was very beau- 
tiful. The dor6wa, which, the preceding day, had 
formed the principal ornament of the landscape, in 
the first part of this day's march gave place entirely 
to other trees, such as the tall rfmi or bentang tree, 
the kuka or monkey-bread tree, and the deleb palm 
or gigina (Borassus flabettiformis ? ') ; but beyond the 
village of D6ka, the dorowa, which is the principal 
tree of the provinces of Katsena and Zariya, again 
came prominently forward, while the kadena also, or 
butter tree, and the alleluba, afforded a greater variety 
to the vegetation. The alleluba (which, on my second 
stay at Kan6, I saw in full blossom) bears a small 
fruit, which the natives eat, but which I never tried 
myself. Even the diim palm, with its fan-shaped 
yellow-coloured foliage, gave occasionally greater relief 
to the fresher vegetation around. The country was 
populous and well cultivated ; and extensive tobacco- 
grounds and large fields of yams or gwaza were seen, 
— both objects being almost a new sight to me ; for 
tobacco, which I had been so much surprised to see 
cultivated to such an extent in the country of the 
pagan Musgu, is scarcely grown at all in Bornu, 
with the exception of Zinder, and I had first observed 
