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oldest* settlement of the Hausa people; and here too the 
Islam seems to have been introduced at an earlier date, cer- 
tainly not later than its introduction into Katsena by the 
grandson of Maghili, the missionary, as is stated, having 
been a man from Baghdad, of the name of Mohammed 'All, 
who killed the dodo, or the old fetish lion. I have already 
mentioned the magic well; and there are many other in- 
teresting traditions current with regard to the older history 
of the place. Daura is a large town, surrounded with a 
strong clay wall in good repair, but is only thinly inhabited, 
and the Thursday market is of no importance. It is the 
capital of a province, and the residence of a governor depen- 
dent only on the Emir el Mumenrn, and would certainly have 
been visited by me in one of my wanderings, if the governor, 
whose name is the same as that of the governor of Katsena 
(Mohammed Bello), and whose character is much worse, had 
not been notorious as an energetic and warlike, but unjust 
and rapacious fellow, with whom it would be more difficult 
to deal than with the highway robbers in the wilderness of 
Dankama. But I recommend this place strongly to the 
notice of future travellers, as a great many native stories 
relate to it. It was once conquered by a prince of Muniyo 
named Soriyo. All the country around is at present a 
wilderness ; and there is very little cultivation. 
Going from Daura to Zinder in a N.N.E. direction, you 
sleep the first night in Kurni, or Ktirreni, a small village sur- 
rounded with a stockade, being the frontier-place of the pro- 
vince of Daura in this direction. It is situated in the midst 
of the forest, and is distant from the capital about six hours. 
2nd day. Arrive at an early hour in the forenoon at Mashi, 
a small place surrounded with a stockade, and be 
longing to Zinder. Every Wednesday a market is 
held here. 
* It is a difficult question, as I have said already, whether 
Daura be identical with the Daur mentioned by El Bekri ; but I 
think it is not. It was in former times a chief place of the 
Diggera. 
