Chap. XXIIT. 
CAMP LIFE. 
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narrative of a nine days' siege, which the warlike 
inhabitants of Gazawa had sustained, ten years pre- 
viously, against the whole army of the famous Bello. 
We remained encamped; and my day Sunday, 
was most agreeably and usefully spent in Januar - V 19th - 
gathering information with regard to the regions 
which I had just entered. There was first Maadi, 
the slave of A'nnur, a native of Bornu, who when 
young had been made prisoner by the Budduma of 
the lake, and had resided three years among these 
interesting people, till having fallen into the hands 
of the Welad Sliman, then in Kanem, he at length, 
on the occasion of the great expedition of the pre- 
ceding year, had fallen into the power of the Kel-owi. 
Although he owed the loss of his liberty to the free- 
booting islanders, he was nevertheless a great ad- 
mirer of theirs, and a sincere vindicator of their 
character. He represented them as a brave and high- 
spirited people, who made glorious and successful 
inroads upon the inhabitants of the shores of the 
lake with surprising celerity, while at home they 
were a pious and God-fearing race, and knew neither 
theft nor fraud among themselves. He concluded his 
eloquent eulogy of this valorous nation of pirates 
by expressing his fervent hope that they might for 
ever preserve their independence against the ruler of 
Bornu. 
I then wrote, from the mouth of Gajere and Yahia 
(another of my friends), a list of the places lying round 
about Gazawa, as follows : ■ — On the east side, Maxlobi, 
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