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of news as a very auspicious omen for the success of 
my undertaking. 
These Arabs left on the 17 th, — a circumstance not 
quite indifferent to me, as I was led to expect that 
they might carry the news of my arrival, not only 
into the heart of the desert, but also to Timbuktu, 
and thus augment the difficulties of my journey. 
There were, however, also a good many individuals 
who wanted to pass themselves off for Arabs with- 
out having any claim to such a descent. Besides 
the Arabs, the Wangarawa, or Eastern Mandingoes, 
especially from Miniana and Wassulo, the inhabi- 
tants of Mosi, and the people of Gao, Gagho, or G6g6, 
frequent this market- place in considerable numbers ; 
and it is principally the Wangarawa who impart to 
this town its importance, supplying it with a small 
quantity of white K61a nuts, for which the consump- 
tion here seems not to be very great, besides woda 
(shells), or "chede," as the Fulbe call them, which 
are evidently imported from the coast of Sierra 
Leone, or, more probably, from the river Nunez*, 
but they were entirely wanting at the time. The 
people of Mosi bring chiefly their fine donkeys, which 
are greatly sought after; and a numerous body of 
people of the sheikh A'hmedu, of Hamda-Allahi, had 
* 1 may as well state in this place, that, both in Dore and in 
Timbuktu, bargains are made according to the full hundred, or the 
miye sala-miye, while in all the markets of Bambara a fictitious 
hundred, the mlye ajemiye, being in reality eighty, forms the 
standard. 
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