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water bubbling up from the soil, and forming a small 
pond — quite a new spectacle for me. After I had re- 
turned to my quarters I was so fortunate as to make 
a great bargain in cloves, which I now found out 
were the only article in request here. The B6rnu 
women seemed amazingly fond of them, and sold 
the nanande of leppi for thirty cloves, when, seeing 
that they were very eager to buy, I raised the price 
of my merchandise, offering only twenty-five. I had 
also the luck to buy several fowls and sufficient 
corn for three horses, with a pair of scissors ; and as 
my mallem Katiiri had several old female friends in 
the village who sent him presents, we all had plenty 
to eat that day. But nevertheless my old friend the 
mallem was not content, but, in the consciousness 
of his own merits, picked a quarrel with me because 
I refused to write charms for the people, while they 
all came to me, as to the wisest of our party ; and 
had I done so, we might all have lived in the greatest 
luxury and abundance. 
In the evening, while a storm was raging outside, 
Billama gave me a list of the most important persons 
in the capital of the country which we were now 
fast approaching. Mohammed Lowel, the son of 
Mallem A'dama, has several full-grown brothers, who 
all figure occasionally as leaders of great expeditions, 
and also others of more tender age. The eldest of 
these is Bii-Bakr (generally called Mallem Bageri), 
who last year conducted the great expedition towards 
the north ; next follows Aijo ; then Mallem Mansur, 
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