Chap. LX. 
TOWN OF CHAMPAGO'RE. 
253 
This place, which is called Champagore, we reached 
at noon, but preferred taking up our quarters on a 
hill opposite the town, to the north, which was 
bounded on that side by a well-wooded dell, and 
overlooked the whole neighbourhood. The town 
itself is inclosed by a small hilly chain towards the 
south, at the foot of which are the wells, seven 
fathoms in depth. It was to have been surrounded 
by a clay wall ; but, only provisionally, the four gates 
had been finished with clay, while the rest of the town 
was still inclosed by a stockade. The interior of 
the place looks very peculiar, and quite different from 
the style usual in Kebbi, which is chiefly owing to the 
remarkable character of the magazines of corn, which 
consist of towers or quadrangular buildings, raised 
a few feet above the ground, in order to protect 
them from the ants. They are from ten to fifteen 
feet in height, and about six feet in diameter, the 
walls gradually sloping inwards towards the top, as 
shown in the accompanying woodcut. They have 
no opening at the bottom, but only a windowlike 
