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CHAP. LXXI. 
DIARY CONTINUED. 
Being enabled to collect a good deal of information, 
as far as my situation allowed, I did not choose to 
accompany the Sheikh when he again went to the 
tents on the 24th of January . He promised that he 
would only stay a day or two, but he did not return 
until the 29th. On this occasion I took the liberty 
of reminding him that he was not over- scrupulous 
in keeping his word ; but, in his amiable way, he 
evasively replied, " that if a person had only one 
fault, or ' aib,' it was of no consequence." Among my 
informants at this time, two Kaniiri travellers, who 
had visited all the countries of the Wangarawa, or 
Eastern Mandingoes, and one of whom had penetrated 
even as far as the Gold Coast, were most distinguished. 
Besides a good deal of information, especially with 
regard to the topography of the country of M6si, 
they gave me an account of the petty struggle between 
the Swedish and the Tond-wa or Asanti ; and they 
also informed me that the Mosi people had plundered 
the villages of Diina, Kiibo, and Isay, all of them 
belonging to the province of Dalla, which we had 
passed on our road hither, and where, they said, 
