Chap. XXIV. THE VILLAGE GU'RZO. 
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where in the fields, affording most nourishing food 
for bees, for which purpose hives, formed of thick 
hollow logs, were fastened to the branches of the 
colossal kuka-trees. We here passed a most curious 
specimen of vegetable intercourse in the thorough 
intermixture of a gigina with another tree. In the 
course of my travels my attention was drawn to the 
interesting attraction which exists between the tama- 
rind-tree and the kiika, both of which trees I very 
often found linked together in the closest embraces. 
This district was greatly enlivened also by a rich 
variety of the feathered tribe, but the beautiful serdi 
was not seen ; the kalo and the tsirna now taking its 
place. 
A quarter of an hour after noon we passed the 
considerable place Dan-Sabua, defended only by a 
stockade, and, with the exception of a small market- 
place, giving very little proof of any kind of industry 
existing among its inhabitants. When I passed the 
place three years later, it even seemed almost deserted. 
About two miles further on we passed a small round 
hill covered with underwood up to its very summit, 
and remarkable enough for being taken as a boundary- 
mark between the provinces of Katsena and Kano ; in 
1854, however, the frontier was carried further N.W., 
near Kaferda. We encamped early in the afternoon 
near the village Giirzo, separated from it only by a 
dell laid out in small garden-fields with wheat and 
onions, and obtained a good supply of the latter, but 
nothing else. In the night a thief almost succeeded 
