Chap. LXXXIII. DAVAY. — KINJE'BERI^ 389 
feet ; but the spreading out of the water was the 
reason that it was here passable at all, although it 
had become too shallow to employ the native craft, 
while lower down, between this place and Zengiri, it 
could not be forded. Having then crossed three 
smaller channels and passed the village Kinjeberi, once 
a large town and encompassed by a wide clay wall, we 
took up our quarters in a poor hamlet called Margwa 
Sheriferi, from a sherif who had settled here many 
years ago; for, in order to procure myself a good 
reception from the ruler of Bornu, after the great 
political disturbances which had taken place, I thought 
it prudent to send a messenger to him to announce 
my arrival. I only needed to give full expression 
to my real feelings in order to render my letter ac- 
ceptable to my former protector, for my delight had 
been extreme, after the news which I had received of 
'Abd e' Rahman having usurped the supreme power, 
on hearing that the just and lawful Sheikh 'Omdr had 
once more regained possession of the royal authority. 
The consequence was, that when, after having tra- 
versed the district of Koydm, with its straggling 
villages, its fine herds of camels, and its deep wells, 
some of them more than forty fathoms in depth, I 
approached the town on the 11th December, I found 
*Abd e' Nebi, the chief eunuch of the Sheikh, with 
thirty horsemen posted at the village of Kaliluwa, 
where a market was just held, in order to give me a 
honourable reception. Thus I re-entered the town of 
Kiikawa, whence I had set out on my dangerous jour- 
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