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Goberdwa ; for they keep their wall in excellent 
repair, and even at present only one gate was pass- 
able at all for laden animals, the others being only 
accessible by a kadarku or narrow draAvbridge. 
The whole interior of the town presented an inte- 
resting aspect, tall diim-palms shooting up between 
the several granite mounds which rise to a consider- 
able elevation while the courtyards exhibited a 
great deal of industry, the people being busy with 
their labours till late in the evening. The proprietor 
of the courtyard where I had taken up my quarters 
treated me with the favourite drink of furd soon after 
my arrival, and with tiiwo in the evening. I was 
also fortunate enough to obtain some milk from the 
viMagers outside. 
It was rather late when we left this place Thursday, 
for another lono; forced march, a dense foo^ October 12th. 
enveloping the country ; but it was still much too 
early for my noble friend the ghaladima, who was 
busy installing a new governor, for which he received 
a present of a horse and large heaps of shells, so that 
it was almost ten o'clock before we had fairly entered 
upon our march. This district being very danger- 
ous, we proceeded on with great haste, and I really 
conjectured that it was in truth the unsafe state of the 
* Kammane is one of those places which are distinguished on 
account of their granite mounds, and which extend from A'yo 
and Magare to Chabane, A^jia, and the fifteen rocky mounds of 
Kotorkoshe, where the Sultan of Sokoto had the preceding year 
directed his expedition. 
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