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entering tlie province of the energetic Kashella Said, 
who they knew kept it in such a state of security that 
there was no danger from robbers. 
While we were proceeding through an uninhabited 
hilly tract, my guide suddenly left me, so that being 
misled by the greater width of the path, and passing 
the village of Jingeri, animated at the time by a 
group of lively females in their best attire, and just 
performing a marriage ceremony, I reached the town 
of Wddi, which I had touched at on my outward 
journey, and at length by a roundabout way arrived 
at Borzdri, where I expected my people to join me. 
But I looked for them in vain the whole night. 
They had taken the road to Gremari. The governor 
treated me hospitably ; but his object was to induce 
me to speak a word in favour of him to his liege 
lord. 
In consequence of my people having taken another 
road, I lost the whole forenoon of the following day, 
and encamped about seven miles beyond Gremari, 
near the village called Maridmari. During this en- 
campment I again heard the unusual sound of a lion 
during the night. But it must be taken into con- 
sideration that a branch of the komddugu passes at 
a short distance to the south of this place, and I 
therefore think myself right in supposing that, in 
Bornu at least, lions are scarcely ever met with, 
except in this entangled net of water-courses which 
I had here reached. The next day I marched for 
a considerable time along the northern border of 
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