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to me also an intelligent-looking Piillo merchant, 
who was trading between Kano and Uje along the 
route indicated above ; but unluckily he did not call 
on me until sunset, just as the prayer of the alma- 
karifti was approaching, and he did not return in 
the evening as I wished him to do. 
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