Chap. XXIII. EQUESTRIAN MUSICIANS. 
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conquered provinces. In fact they have done all in 
their power to attain this object ; and A'nnur's policy 
is so well known to the Fellani, that once when he 
came to Katsena he received most shameful treatment 
at their hands. Afterwards I was visited by El 
Wakhshi, and paid him in return a visit at that part 
of the encampment where some of his merchandise 
was deposited, for he himself was living in the town. 
Here he introduced to me a person who was very 
soon to become one of my direst tormentors, the 
bare remembrance of whom is even now unpleasant ; 
it was the haj Bel-Ghet, a man born in Tawat, 
but who had long been settled in Katsena, and 
though not with the title, yet in reality holding the 
office of " a serki-n-turawa." 
A troop of eight mounted royal musicians ("masu- 
kidda-n-serki "), who had been playing the whole day 
before the several divisions of the " airi," came like- 
wise to my tent in the course of the afternoon, and 
gratified my ears with a performance on their various 
instruments. There was the drum, or " ganga", very 
much like our own instrument of that kind, and of 
about the same size as the common regimental drum ; 
the long wind instrument, or " pampamme;" a shorter 
one, a sort of flute, or "elgaita*;" a sort of double 
tambourine, or "kalango;" a simple tympanum, or 
* All sorts of wind instruments, the flute included, are called 
by the Hausa people " bushe-bushe," from which word the Fellani- 
n-Hausa have formed " fufefufeji." 
