Chap. LX. 
SETTLEMENT IN GANDO. 
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arms by the ruler of Gando, who was not at all pleased 
with the independent bearing of Lebbo and his son 
A'hmedu, by whom he was succeeded, — those people, 
being borne away by a pure reformatory view of their 
religion, and elated by their victory, going so far as 
to despatch a message to their kinsmen in Sokoto 
and Gando, to the effect that, if they would not re- 
duce the number of their wives to two, and renounce 
their wide effeminate dress, they would pay them a 
hostile visit ; and it is on this account that, even at 
the present time, there is no amicable relation what- 
ever subsisting between the courts of Sokoto and 
Gando, on the one hand, and that of Hamda-AUahi 
on the other. 
The chief of Gando, therefore, granted Galaijo an 
extensive although not very fertile district in his 
territories, where he has now been settled for almost 
thirty years. Thus we find, in this region, a small 
court of its own, and a whole community bearing no 
resemblance whatever to the customs of the people 
around them, but having faithfully preserved the 
manners and institutions of their native country, 
Masina ; for, while all the neighbouring Fiilbe are 
rather a slender race of men, with expressive and 
sharply-cut features, who make it a rule to dress in 
white colours, we find here quite the reverse — a set 
of sturdy men, with round open countenances, and 
long black curly hair, all uniformly clad in light-blue 
tobes, and almost all of them armed with muskets. 
I was utterly surprised at the noble bearing of several 
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