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of four magnificent horses, which the latter had lately 
sent to the Queen of England. He then confessed that 
he was more of an antiquarian, and ignorant of the 
present state of matters ; but he was quite sure that 
during the time of Mula Ismail it certainly was as 
he had stated. To this I replied, that while all the 
Mohammedan states, including Morocco, had since 
that time declined in power, the Christians, and the 
English in particular, had made immense steps in 
advance. We then shook hands, and I left the poor 
Moslim to his own reflections. 
Proceeding with El Wakhshi on our intended pro- 
menade, and laughing at the scrape into which he 
had almost got by changing (in the dispute with Bel- 
Ghet) the honorary title of the latter, " Sultan ben e' 
Sultan " (Sultan son of Sultan), into that of " Shitan 
ben e' Shitan " (Satan son of Satan), we went to the 
house of a Ghadamsi, where we found several Arab and 
native merchants collected together, and among them 
a Ghadamsi who bore the same name as that which, 
for more friendly intercourse with the natives, I had 
adopted on these journeys, namely, that of 'Abd el 
Kerim. This man had accompanied f Abd Allah (Clap- 
per ton) on his second journey from Kan 6 to Sokoto, 
and was well acquainted with all the circumstances 
attending his death. He was greatly surprised to 
hear that " Rishar" (Richard Lander), whom he had 
believed to be a younger brother of Clapperton, had 
not only successfully reached the coast, after his cir- 
cuitous journey to Danroro, and after having been 
