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mencement of his undertaking, as he had none of 
A'nnur's people with him, and besides Ibrahim and 
the useful snake-like Amankay (who had recovered 
from his guineaworm), his only companion was a 
Tebu who had long been settled in A'sben, and whom 
he had engaged for the length of his intended trip. 
At that time he had still the firm intention to go to 
Kiikawa by way of Kano, and begged me to leave his 
things there. He was in excellent health, and full of 
an enthusiastic desire to devote himself to the study 
of the new world which opened before us ; and we 
parted with a hearty wish for each other's success in 
our different quarters before we were to meet again 
in the capital of Bornu — for we did not then know 
that we should have an interview in Tasawa. 
I now went on alone, but felt not at all depressed by 
solitude, as I had been accustomed from my youth 
to wander about by myself among strange people. I 
felt disposed, indeed, to enter into a closer connection 
with my black friend Gajere, who was very commu- 
nicative, but oftentimes rather rude, and unable to 
refrain from occasionally mocking the stranger who 
wanted to know everything, and would not acknow- 
ledge Mohammed in all his prophetic glory. He 
called my attention to several new kinds of trees 
while we were passing the two villages Bagangare 
and Tangonda. These were the " baushi," the " ka- 
rammia," and the " gonda," the last being identical 
with the Carica Papaya, and rather rare in the 
northern parts of Negroland, but very common in 
