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standing the enmity existing between their kinsmen 
and the ruler of B6rnu, are allowed to pasture their 
herds here in full security, so far as they are able to 
defend themselves against the robberies of the Ta- 
warek, and without even paying any tribute to the 
sheikh. However, their immigration into this coun- 
try does not date from very ancient times ; and they 
appear not to have kept their stock pure from 
intermixture, so that they have lost almost all the 
national marks of the Fulfulde race. 
They seemed to be in easy circumstances, the elder 
men bringing me each of them an immense bowl of 
milk, and a little fresh butter as cleanly prepared as in 
any English or Swiss dairy. This was a substantial 
proof of their nationality ; for all over Bornu no butter 
is prepared except with the dirty and disgusting addi- 
tion of some cow's urine, and it is all in a fluid state. 
The hospitable donors were greatly delighted when I 
gave to each of them a sailor's knife ; but on our part 
we were rather perplexed by their bounty, as I and 
my two boys might easily have drowned ourselves in 
such a quantity of milk. Meanwhile, as I was chatting 
with the old people, the younger ones continued their 
singing and dancing till a late hour with a perse- 
verance most amusing, though little favourable for our 
night's rest ; moreover, we were startled several times 
their kinsmen, have corrupted the name originally U'rube. The 
O'bore, however, are even known at present in other parts of the 
kingdom, and were met with by Mr. Overweg on his journey to 
Gujeba. 
