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astonished to find that he was acquainted with all 
the incidents of my stay in Timbuktu. He quartered 
me in the same small but neatly arranged hut 
where I had been lodged during my former stay, and 
from which I felt rather sorry to drive away the in- 
dustrious landlady. The governor treated me in 
an extremely hospitable manner, sending me, besides 
juilk and corn, even a small heifer, although I had 
made him only a very trifling present. His name is 
*Abd el Wahdb, and he is a brother of A'bii el Hassan 
by his father's side. With such cheerful treatment 
we enjoyed our stay here very much, the weather 
having cleared up, and a rainy morning being suc- 
ceeded by a fine afternoon. 
The friendly disposition of the governor was the 
more agreeable, as we were delayed here the following 
day, several of my companions being disabled by 
sickness, and the Serki-n-Chiko wanting to lay in a 
supply of corn for the road. I spent a great deal of 
my leisure time, thus involuntarily obtained, in the 
company of the latter, who detailed to me the in- 
cidents of the struggle of his family with the Jihadi, 
and dilated on the importance of the town of Jega, 
which is a market place of great consequence, espe- 
cially for rough silk, with which it supplies the whole 
of Zdnfara, and even the distant market of A16ri, or 
Ilori. In fact, I am quite sure that the silk which 
has been obtained from the missionary station in Y6- 
ruba, is nothing but the selfsame article introduced 
into this country from Tripoli, and again exported 
