Chap. LXII. 
NATIVE DWELLINGS. 
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On passing several parties of Fiilbe travellers on 
our road, I was surprised at the change in the form 
of compliments, the mode of saluting having been, 
the last few days, " baraijo," but to-day we met 
some parties who saluted us with the well-known 
compliment " fofo," a word which, although probably 
of western origin, has been even admitted into the 
Hausa language, with the meaning of general well- 
wishing. Thus we proceeded cheerfully onwards, 
having crossed a very difficult boggy ground, where 
I almost lost one of my camels, till, a little after two 
o'clock in the afternoon, we reached the poor village 
of Diina, consisting of three detached groups of huts, 
one of which, with its high towerlike granaries with a 
pointed roof of thatch, presented a very remarkable 
spectacle. As for myself, I obtained quarters in an 
isolated hut of rather indifferent description. 
The first news which I learned here, and which 
was far from being agreeable, was, that the governor 
of Dalla with his camp was at a short distance, and 
in the very road which we had to pursue the fol- 
