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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXV. 
to have been a respectable man, he must have paid 
very little attention to the education of his children. 
It will scarcely be believed that this man, although 
he had two camel- loads of goods of mine in his hands, 
yet left me without a single shell, " ko uri guda," for 
a whole fortnight, so that I was glad to borrow two 
thousand kurdi — less than an Austrian dollar, from 
Mohammed e' Sfaksi, in order to defray the most 
necessary expenses of my household. 
Besides, this agent urged the absolute necessity 
of making a considerable present not only to the 
governor, which I was quite prepared to do, but 
another of nearly the same value to the ghaladima 
or first minister, who happened to be the governor's 
brother, and enjoyed quite as much authority and in- 
fluence. The consequence was that I was obliged to 
give away the few articles of value in my possession 
merely for being tolerated and protected. The second 
day after my arrival, the governor received a message 
from Mr. Richardson, forwarded from Zmder, inti- 
mating that, after he should have received new sup- 
plies from the coast, he would not fail to come to 
Kano ; whereupon he sent me word that I had done 
very wrong to enter his town without giving him 
previous information, whereas my countryman had 
already forwarded a notice that at some future period 
he was likely to pay him a visit. Besides concluding 
from the fact that I was not mentioned at all in that 
letter that I was travelling on my own account, he 
made also greater pretensions with regard to a pre- 
sent. 
