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CHAP. XXV. 
RESIDENCE IN KANO. — VIEW OF ITS INTERIOR. ITS HISTORY AND 
PRESENT STATE. COMMERCE. 
Kano for us was a station of importance not only 
from a scientific but also from an economical point 
of view. Instead of being provided with ready- 
cash, we had received in Miirzuk, on account of the 
British government, merchandise which, we had been 
assured, would not only be safer than money, but 
would also prove more advantageous for us. In con- 
sequence of the heavy extortions to which we were 
subjected on the road to Air, and of our long delay 
in that country, we had been deprived of the small 
articles which we carried for barter, so that we were 
entirely thrown upon the merchandise which we had 
forwarded in advance from Tinteggana; and I for 
my part, on my arrival in Kano, had to liquidate a 
debt of not less than 112,300 kurdi: viz. 55,000 for 
the carriage of this very merchandise from Tinteggana 
to Kano ; 8300 as my share of the presents or passage- 
money given on the road; 18,000 to Gajere, as hire 
for the mare and bullock ; and 31,000 to a man of the 
name of Haj el Dawaki, on account of Abii-Bakr el 
Wakhshi, for the articles bought from him in Katsena, 
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