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enabled to move about a little on horseback, and from 
that day forward, my health continued to improve. 
Finding that my segifa excluded every draught of 
air, I built myself a shed of matting in front of the door 
of the clay house, where I spent my time pleasantly 
enough, until the great humidity of the ground, in 
consequence of the rains that began to fall, drove me 
back into my hall. The whole breadth of the valley 
to the very foot of the rocky border was now under 
water to a considerable depth, and covered with 
water-lilies. Scarcely a small footpath remained. A 
great deal of rice was to be seen in the low ground, 
while the cultivation on the higher ground consisted 
entirely of sorghum. But the richness of the country 
around was scarcely of any avail, for greater inse- 
curity prevailed than on my former visit, even at the 
distance of a few miles from the capital. A small 
host of the enemy had succeeded in carrying into 
slavery from a distance of less than ten miles from 
the capital, a considerable number of people and cat- 
tle.* Another predatory expedition of the Biigaje 
from Alakkos, a few days later, drove away two 
herds of cattle from the very village of Giydwa; 
* This expedition was led by the Dan-ghaladima-Gober, and 
fell upon the border district of Jyju, situated in the rocky district 
between Giyawa and Wurno, and comprising many small hamlets, 
or gidaje, as the Gida-n-Riya, Gida-n-Alis6wa, Gida-n-Gorgabe, 
Gida-n-K61a-Dalladi, Gida-n-Maidanga, Gida-n-Yakubu, Gida-n- 
Ruggun-daji, Rumde-n-ghaladima, and Alkali-Asben. A brother 
of his ransacked Wano, separated only by a narrow valley from 
Salame. 
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