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of women from the village, offering for sale fish, in a 
fresh and dried state, besides a few fowls, milk, and 
" temmari," the seeds of the cotton plant. But with 
the exception of a few beads for adorning their own 
sable persons, they were scarcely willing to receive 
anything besides corn. I was glad to see, instead of 
the ugly Bornu females, these more symmetrical 
figures of the Kanembii ladies, the glossy blackness of 
whose skin was agreeably relieved by their white teeth 
as Avell as by their beads of the same colour. Our 
friends, the Daza, who, five weeks previously had been 
driven back by the Tawarek, had recovered here 
their luggage, which on that occasion they had hastily 
deposited with the villagers, when making an attempt 
to cross the desert. They were here to separate from 
us for a time, as, for some reason or other, they 
wanted to pursue a more westerly track, leading by 
the Bir el Hammam, or Metemrai, which is mentioned 
by the former expedition, while our friend Kolo was 
bent upon keeping nearer the shores of the lagune, 
by way of Kibbo. 
After a short conversation with the chief of the 
place, the May-Ngegimibe, we set out in the after- 
noon, and proceeding at a slow rate, as the camels 
were very heavily laden, we passed, after a march of 
about eight miles, along a large open creek of the 
lagune ; and, having met some solitary travellers 
coming from Kdnem, encamped, about eight in the 
evening, on rather uneven ground, and kept alternate 
watch during the iiight. 
