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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXX. 
insect which creates so much loathing in civilized 
countries ; on the contrary the native thinks its 
smell aromatic. 
My poor Katsena nag, the present of the extraordi- 
nary governor of that place, almost against my expecta- 
tion, had successfully carried me as far as Kiikawa, 
but at that point it was quite exhausted, wanting at 
least some months' repose. I was, therefore, without a 
horse, and was obliged at first to walk on foot, which 
was very trying in the deep sand and hot weather. 
I had once entreated the vizier to lend me a horse, 
but Lamino had in consequence sent me such a mise- 
rable animal that I declined mounting it. The sheikh 
being informed afterwards that I was bargaining for 
a horse, sent me one as a present ; it was tall and 
well-formed, but of a colour which I did not like, and 
very lean, having just come from the country* where 
it had got no corn, so that it was unfit for me, as I 
wanted a strong animal, ready to undergo a great 
deal of fatigue. I was already preparing for my 
journey to Adamawa, and having made the acquaint- 
ance of Mallem Katiiri, a native of Yakoba, or rather, 
as the town is generally called, Gariin Bauchi, and an 
excellent man, who had accompanied several great 
ghazzias in that country, and particularly that most 
remarkable one of Amba- Sambo, the governor of 
Chamba, as far as the Igbo country, at the Delta of 
the Niger, I hired him and bought for his use a 
strong good travelling horse. I bought also a 
tolerable pony for my servant, Mohammed ben Sad, 
