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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXIII. 
CHAP. XXIII. 
GAZAWA. RESIDENCE IN KATSENA. 
Saturday, We ma de a good start with our camels, 
January i8th. w hirfi having been treated to a consider- 
able allowance of salt on the first day of our halt, 
had made the best possible use of these four days 7 
rest to recruit their strength. At the considerable 
village of Kalgo, which we passed at a little less than 
five miles beyond our encampment, the country became 
rather billy, but only for a short distance. Tamarinds 
constituted the greatest ornament of the landscape. 
A solitary traveller attracted our notice on account 
of his odd attire, mounted as he was on a bullock 
with three large pitchers on each side. Four miles 
beyond Kalgo the character of the country became 
suddenly changed, and dense groups of dum-palms 
covered the ground. But what pleased me more 
than the sight of these slender forked trees was 
when, half an hour after mid-day, I recognized my 
splendid old friend the bore-tree, of the valley BogheP, 
* It might seem to some readers that there is some connection 
between the name of the valley and the tree ; but I think it is 
merely accidental. The Hausa language is not a written lan- 
guage ; but if the natives were to write the name " bore " or 
" baure," they would certainly write it with an r, and not with a gh. 
