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ference of about six miles. According to the statement 
of Leo*, it appears never to have been surrounded by 
a wall. The dwellings in general do not seem to have 
been distinguished by their style of architecture, with 
the exception of the residence of the king, although 
even that was of such a description that the Basha 
J6dar, on conquering the town, wrote to inform his 
master, Miildy e' Dhehebi, that the house of the Sheikh 
el Haram, in Morocco, was much better than the 
palace of the A'skia.f 
When I returned to my tent from this my first 
excursion, I found a great crowd of men assembled 
there, but was unable to make the acquaintance of 
any one who might give me some information about 
the place, and, on the whole, I did not succeed in 
entering into any amicable relations with the inhabi- 
tants of Gogo. Their sullen behaviour seems to be 
accounted for by the fact, as I shall mention further 
on, that they had behaved rather treacherously to- 
wards the Christian who had visited this place some 
fifty years before. 
I endeavoured also, although in vain, to buy 
Indian corn, from the inhabitants, although it was 
perhaps the fear of the Tawdrek which made them 
deny that they had any. Thus I found myself re- 
duced to the necessity of providing myself with a 
supply of lizak, or eniti, that is to say, the seeds of 
the Pennisetum distichum, which is generally used as 
* L. vii. c. 3. 
■f Journal Leipsic Oriental Society, vol. ix. p. 549. 
