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own hints with regard to the state of his health are 
taken into account. 
In the evening, my old friend Modibo 'All, and the 
mother of A'bii, the elder and more warlike brother 
of the present ghaladima, who was slain by the 
Goberawa two years before my visit to this place, 
treated me hospitably, and I sent a present to Saidu, 
a younger son of Bello, who resides in Sokoto, and is 
considered as a sort of mayor. 
It was the great market-day, which was Friday , 
of some importance to me, as I had to buy a Apnl 22nd ' 
good many things, so that I was obliged to send there 
a sum of 7 0,000 shells ; but the market did not 
become well-frequented or well-stocked till between 
two and three o'clock in the afternoon, when I myself 
proceeded thither. I had taken a ride in the morning 
through the south-eastern quarter of the town, pro- 
ceeding through the kofa-n-'Atiku, thence along the 
wall, towards the west, and re-entered the town by 
the kofa-n-'Ali Jedu, where the whole quarter is very 
desolate, even the wall being in a state of decay, and 
the fine mosque, built by the gedado during Clapper- 
ton's stay here, fallen entirely to ruins. But, even 
in the present reduced condition of the place, 
the market still presented a very interesting sight, 
the numerous groups of people, buyers as well as 
sellers, and the animals of various descriptions, being 
picturesquely scattered over the rocky slope, as I 
have endeavoured to represent in the plate opposite. 
The market was tolerably well attended, and well 
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