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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTEE X. 
My Barracan — Spontaneous Civility on arrival in Damerghou) — 
Ghaseb Stubble — Cactus — Water-Melons — Party of Tuaricks — 
Boban Birni — Huts of Damerghou — Tagelel — Women of the 
Village — Population of the Country — Complaisant Ladies — 
Festivities — Aquatic Birds — Dancing — A Flatterer — A Slave 
Family — A new Keason for Wife-beating — Hazna Dancers — 
Damerghou, common ground — Purchase of Ghaseb — Dethroned 
Sultan — Yusuf — Mohammed Tunisee — Ophthalmia — Part with 
Barth and Overweg — Presents to Servants — Sheikh of Fumta — 
Yakobah Slave — Applications for Medicine — Boban Birni — 
Forest — At length enter Bornou ground — Daazzenai — Tuarick 
Respectabilities — Detachment of the Salt-Caravan . Page 161 
CHAPTER XI. 
March for Zinder — Enter the City — Reception — Delighted to escape 
from the Tuaricks— Letters from Kuka — Hospitable Treatment 
— Presents for the Sarkee and others — Visit the Shereef — His 
Duties — Audience of the Sarkee — Servility — Double - skulled 
Slave — Powder and Shot — Portrait of the Sultan — Commission 
from Kuka — European Clothes — Family of En-Noor — Tour of 
the Town — Scavengers — List of Sultans of Central Africa — An- 
cient Haussa — The Market — Money — Conversation with the 
Shereef — The Sultan at Home — Mixed Race of Zinder — Statis- 
tics — Personages of the Court 178 
CHAPTER XII. 
Presents from Officials — Mode of treating Camels — Prices — Cowrie 
Money — Shereef Interpreter — Visits — Harem — Houses — Grand 
Vizier — Picturesque Dances — Tuaricks at Zinder — Kohlans and 
Fullans — Province of Zinder — Account of its Rebellions — Trees 
— Details on the Slave-trade — Prices — Mode of obtaining 
Slaves — Abject Respect of the Sultan — Visits — Interview with 
the Sarkee — The Presence — Curious Mode of administering 
J ustice — Barbarous Punishments — Hyaenas — Gurasu — Fig- 
his — Place of Execution — Tree of Death — Hysena Dens — 
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