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CHAP. LXXXIII. 
SECOND RESIDENCE IN KANO, UNDER UNFAVOURABLE CIRCUM- 
STANCES. — MARCH TO KUKAWA. 
On my arrival in Kan6, I found everything pre- 
pared, and took up my quarters in a house provided 
for me; but I was greatly disappointed in finding 
neither letters nor supplies; being entirely desti- 
tute of meanSj and having several debts to pay in 
this place, — amongst others, the money due to my 
servants, to whom I had paid nothing during the 
whole journey from Kiikawa to Timbuktu, and back. 
I was scarcely able to explain how all this could 
have happened; having fully relied upon finding 
here everything I wanted, together with satisfactory 
information with regard to the proceedings of Mr. 
Vogel and his companions, whose arrival in Kiikawa 
I had as yet only accidentally learned from a libe- 
rated slave in S6koto. But fortunately, without re- 
lying much upon Sidi Eashid, the man whom I 
knew to be at the time the agent of Her Majesty's 
Yice Consul in Miirzuk, I had given my confidence at 
once to Sidi 'All, the merchant whom I have mentioned 
already in the account of my former stay in this place, 
as a tolerably trustworthy person, and whose good- will 
