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be seen, althougli it might be supposed to succeed 
here, the river being wide and forming a large island 
called Delluwe. 
Tuesday, The good treatment of the people of A'ze- 
Juiy25th. made my companions rather unwilling 
to leave this place so soon, and a further delay was 
caused by their bartering. When at length we set out 
on our march, we had to make a considerable detour, in 
order to avoid the lower course of a rivulet, which is 
here not passable. Our path lay through corn-fields 
till we reached the village of Kasdnni, consisting of 
two groups, one of which was surrounded by a keffi, 
or stockade, and inhabited by Fiilbe ; the other 
was merely a slave hamlet. Rich corn-fields, shaded 
by fine trees and broken by projecting rocks, ex- 
tended on all sides. Close beyond this hamlet, we 
crossed a little rivulet called Tederimt by the Ta- 
warek, which in this spot, although only twenty-one 
feet wide and a foot in depth, caused us a short 
delay, owing to its banks rising to the height of about 
ten feet. But inconsiderable as was the size of the 
river, it became important to me, as in crossing it 
my ear was greeted for the first time by the usual 
Hausa salute, which I had not heard for so long a 
time, and which transported me once more into a 
region for which I had contracted a great predilec- 
tion, and which among all the tracts that I had visited 
in Negroland, I had found the most agreeable for a 
foreigner to reside in. 
We then continued our march through the district 
of Gote, which is chiefly adorned with the monkey- 
