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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LX. 
In the afternoon I went to pay my respects to the 
governor, who is not without power, so that I 
thought it better to sacrifice to him a berniis of in- 
ferior quality, besides some smaller articles. He was 
a fine-grown man, with large features, which at once 
indicated his origin from the black stock of the Fulbe 
or the Torobe. Sitting at the door of his palace, he 
received me kindly, and promised me that I should 
have no difficulty in my further progress. Consider- 
ing the scarcity of provisions, he treated me hospi- 
tably on the whole, sending me the next day a young 
heifer, besides a great many dishes of prepared food. 
The name of the principality is Yagha*, dating 
from the time which preceded the conquest of the 
Fulbe ; but the governor's private name is Sajo ben 
Ibrahhna. 
Notwithstanding the power of the ruler, the place 
is in a miserable condition, and resembles rather a 
wilderness than a town ; but it is extremely pic- 
turesque, having a thick covert of beautiful trees 
nourished by a large sheet of water. The place con- 
tains scarcely 200 huts, and nothing like a market is 
to be found. The difficulty of our obtaining sup- 
plies was the greater, as, contrary to our expectation 
and the information we had received, nothing but 
shells had currency in the place ; and it was with a 
* The places belonging to the province of Yagha are the fol- 
lowing : Denga, Gongungo, Gesangu, Sinsirga, Notu, Dori (sur- 
named Dembini, in order to distinguish it from Dori or Dore in 
Libtako), Sebba, Namantugu, Kankanfogu, Hoga, Humore, Kabo. 
