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CHAP. XXXVII. 
MY JOURNEY HOME FROM a'dAMAWA. 
Having made these few remarks with regard to 
the interesting work of conquest and colonization 
which is going on in A'damawa, I now return to my 
quarters in Ribago, in order to carry the reader with 
me on my journey back from that country to Kukawa. 
Our luggage had been so wetted on the Wednesdav> 
preceding afternoon, while crossing the mayo June 25th - 
Binti, that we were obliged to stay in Ribago the 
whole morning, in order to dry it. The horseman 
who had escorted me out of the town had returned; 
and in his stead Ibrahima, with a companion on foot, 
had made his appearance with orders from the go- 
vernor to escort me to the very frontiers of the 
country. In order to render him a more sociable 
companion, I thought it well to make him a present 
of a tiirkedi. My mallem had not come along with 
us ; and I could not be angry with him for not 
desiring to return to Kukawa, where he had been 
detained against his will. The horse on which I had 
mounted him he had well deserved for his trouble. 
Ibrahima told me that Katiiri had come after me as 
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