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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LIX. 
Mekka, had been frightened by the difficulties of the 
road ; and further on we met another party of tra- 
vellers, among whom was a Limtuni, that is to say, 
a Moor, a man of mixed Arab and Berber blood, of 
the ancient tribe of the Limtiina — who, having 
once formed the chief portion of the powerful con- 
federation of the Merabetin (Almoravides), are at 
present scattered and settled, in small fragments, 
on the very shores of the Atlantic. He was a 
stout and active little fellow, with an open coun- 
tenance, and, being on his way to Mekka, rushed 
immediately towards me to salute me, asking me 
whether I was a Turk or a Christian. I presented 
him with a dollar, requesting him to give a short 
note (which I wrote on the spot) to my friend Haj 
Beshir, in Kiikawa, wherein I informed him of my 
whereabouts. 
Having then passed several ponds, among which 
the tebki Sugindo was the most important, and made 
another rocky descent, from the top of which we over- 
looked the large valley or dallul of Boso, and having 
turned round a small rocky ridge, we reached the 
village of Garbo about two o'clock in the afternoon. 
Garbo is a small place, half deserted, and greatly ha- 
rassed by the enemy, — the Dendi of Tanda having 
made a foray against this place only two days pre- 
viously, and carried away almost all the cattle belong- 
ing to the inhabitants. But it is of importance, as 
being the last Hausa place in this direction, the re- 
gions to the west belonging exclusively to the Songhay 
