32 TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. XXXIX. 
most essential or only apparatus of these wandering 
neatherds are the tall sticks for hanging up the milk 
to secure it ; the " sakti" or skins for milk and water, 
the calabashes, and the korio. The men are always 
armed with their long wooden shields, the " ngawa 
fogobe," and their spears, and some are most fantasti- 
cally dressed, as I have described on a former occasion. 
After having loaded our camels, and proceeded some 
distance, we came to the temporary abode of another 
large herd, whose guardians at first behaved unfriendly, 
forbidding our tasting a drop of their delicious stuff; 
but they soon exchanged their haughty manners for 
the utmost cordiality, when Madi, an elder brother 
of Fugo 'Ali, our friend in Maduwari, recognised 
me. He even insisted on my encamping on the spot, 
and staying the day with him, and it was with dif- 
ficulty that he allowed me to pursue my march, 
after having swallowed as much delicious milk as 
my stomach would bear. Further on we joined the 
main road, and found to the left of it a handsome 
pool of muddy water, and filled two skins with it. 
Certainly there is nothing worse for a European 
than this stagnant dirty water ; but during the rainy 
season, and for a short time afterwards, he is rarely 
able to get any other. 
Soon after I had another specimen of the treatment 
to which the natives are continually exposed from the 
king's servants in these countries ; for, meeting a large 
herd of fine sheep, my horseguard managed to lay 
hold of the fattest specimen of the whole herd, not- 
