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day 400 shells for the corn with which I was forced 
to feed them exclusively. 
Almost all the corn which is brought into the 
market consists of Negro millet, or Pennisetum ty- 
pho'ideum, while Indian millet, or sorghum, is found 
only in very small quantities ; and I was repeatedly 
prevented from buying, because I was not possessed 
of what the people wanted. Thus when, on the 13th, 
a caravan of Tawarek serfs, with oxen, arrived bring- 
ing corn from G6g6, they refused to accept any- 
thing I could offer them, viz. shirts, zenne, and 
gabaga ; and the day before I started there was no 
corn at all to be got, as no Tarki had arrived. Not 
the smallest particle of rice was to be obtained ; and 
I could not but deem myself fortunate in being able 
to procure a small supply of vegetable paste of do- 
dowa, which made my food of millet a little more en- 
durable. This formed my usual supper. In the 
morning I usually breakfasted on tiggera, or cold 
paste, with sour milk ; the latter being excellent and 
very cheap, and almost the only article which was 
to be found in abundance. 
But, besides the great difficulty I had in supplying 
my wants during my residence in the place, I had still 
more trouble in obtaining the currency of the coun- 
try through which I had to pass on my journey to 
Timbuktu; this is the "farawel," or "feruwal," as 
it is called by the Arabs, a long narrow strip of cotton 
cloth sewn together from a number of pieces, and 
supposed to measure thirty-two dra, though in reality 
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