Chap. XXVI. 
A BAHA'USHE SLAVE. 
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inside a town, except where I was to make a stay of 
some length. I was therefore delighted, in the course 
of the afternoon, to hear from the man who had 
taken the camels outside the town upon the pasture- 
ground, that the sherif Konche had arrived and sent 
me his compliments. 
I had once seen this man in Kano, and had been 
advised to wait for him, as he was likewise on his 
way to Kiikawa ; but knowing how slow Arabs are, 
and little suspecting what a sociable and amiable 
man he was, I thought it better to go on ; whereupon 
he, thinking that my company was preferable to a 
longer stay, hastened to follow me. To-day, how- 
ever, I did not see him, as he had encamped out- 
side the town ; still I had already much reason to 
thank him, as he had brought back my fickle runaway 
servant r Abd-Alla, whom after some reprimand, and a 
promise on his side to remain with me in future, I 
took back, as I was very much in want of a servant. 
He was a native of the country, a Bahaushe with a 
little Arab blood in him, and had been reduced to 
slavery. Afterwards, in Bornu, a man claimed him 
as his property. His mother, who was living not 
far from Gerki, was also about this time carried 
into slavery, having gone to some village where she 
was kidnapped. Such things are of daily occurrence 
in these countries on the borders of two territories. 
The lad's sister had a similar fate. 
The inhabitants of Gezawa seem to be devoted 
almost entirely to cattle-breeding ; and in the market 
