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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXV. 
west corner ; and thence, along the principal street, 
which traverses the market, is the station of the 
people who sell firewood. The market is generally 
immensely crowded during the heat of the day, and 
offers a most interesting scene. 
The wall, just as it has been described by Captain 
Clapperton*, is still kept in the best repair, and is 
an imposing piece of workmanship in this quarter of 
the world. This wall, with its gates, I have not been 
able to lay down with much exactness ; but, from my 
observations on my later visit in 1854, being aware 
of the great inaccuracy of the little sketch of the 
town given by Clapperton, who himself pretends only 
to give an eye-sketch, I thought it worth while, with 
regard to a place like Kano (which certainly will at 
some future period become important even for the 
commercial world of Europe), to survey and sketch 
it more minutely; and I hope my plan, together with 
the view taken from Mount Dala of the southern and 
really-inhabited quarter of the town, will give a tole- 
rably correct idea of its character. 
The market-place is necessarily much less fre- 
quented during the rainy season, when most of the 
people are busy with the labours of the field. A great 
part of the market-place during that time is even in- 
undated by the waters of the pond Jakara. 
I now proceed to enumerate the quarters, the 
names of which are not without their interest. I must 
* Clapperton and Denham's Travels, vol. ii. p. 50. 
