Chap. LVI 
AN AGREEABLE INCIDENT. 
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western gate. Such was the confidence which we 
placed in our firearms. A rocky eminence, such as 
are met with also inside the town, started up at 
some little distance from our camping-ground ; and 
a majestic dorowa, the largest tree of this species 
which I saw on my journey, shaded the place to a 
considerable extent, but attracted a number of people, 
who disturbed my privacy. The ghaladima had taken 
a northerly road, to the town of Tsauri, which he had 
recently founded, and did not arrive till the after- 
noon. 
On mounting my horse in the morning Friday, 
to pursue my march, a Piillo came up March25th - 
to me and handed me a letter, which he begged me to 
take to a relative of his in Timbuktu. This showed 
his full confidence in my success; and it did not fail 
to inspire me with the same feeling. The inhabitants 
of the town marched out their band of musicians, 
who played a farewell to us ; and the several troops 
of horsemen, in their picturesque attire, thronged 
along the path winding between the granite mounds 
which broke the level on all sides. Groups of deleb 
and diim palms towered, with their fan -shaped foliage, 
over the whole scenery. 
We had now entered the more unsafe border coun- 
try between the Mohammedans and pagans, while 
changing our direction from south to west ; and the 
cultivation was less extensive, although even here a 
little cotton was to be seen. After a march of about 
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