Chap. LXXXTIL 
STAY IN KANO'. 
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I endeavoured at once to secure, by sacrificing to him 
almost everything I had left of value, including a small 
six-barrelled pistol. In return, he promised to supply 
my wants till I should be put in possession of the 
money and merchandise which I had deposited in 
Zinder. 
The first thing, therefore, which I had to do the 
next morning, after having paid my compliments to 
the ghaladima and the governor, and made to each of 
them a handsome present, such as my means would 
allow, was to send my servant Mohammed el Gatroni, 
upon whom I could fully rely, to Zinder; giving 
him full instructions, and promising him a handsome 
present, if he should succeed in bringing away all 
my effects, both those which had been deposited 
on a former occasion, and the merchandise which 
had been forwarded on my account at a later pe- 
riod ; and a smaller one in case he should only find 
the latter portion : for, after all, I was by no means 
sure that the box of ironware and the four hundred 
dollars had remained safe during the severe civil 
struggles which had agitated Bornu during my ab- 
sence. Meanwhile, till the return of this messenger, I 
endeavoured to pass my time as usefully as possible, 
by completing a survey of the town which I had 
begun during my former residence, but was far from 
having finished. At the same time the state of my 
health, on account of the close quarters in which I was 
here lodged, after having roved about in the open air 
for so long a time, required uninterrupted exercise. 
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