CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER XIII. 
Brother of the Sultan — Trade of Zinder — Prices — The Sarkee drinks 
Rum — Five Cities — Houses of Zinder — Female Toilette — An- 
other Tree of Death — Paganism — Severity of the Sultan — 
Lemons — Barth and Overweg — Fire — Brother of the Sarkee — 
Daura — Shonshona — Lousou — Slaves in Irons — Reported Raz- 
zia — Talk with the Shereef — Humble Manners —Applications 
for Medicines — Towns and Villages of Zinder — The great Drum 
— Dyers — Tuarick Visits — Rationale of Razzias — Slaves — " Like 
Prince like People" — French in Algiers — The Market — Old 
Slave — Infamous System — Plan of the great Razzia Page 214 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Family of the Sarkee — Converted Jew — Hard Dealings — How to 
get rid of a Wife — Route to Tesaoua — Influence of Slavery — 
Prices of Aloes and Silk — Medicine for a Merchant — Departure 
of the Sarkee for the Razzia — Encampment — Mode of Fighting 
— Produce of Razzias — Story of the Tibboo — Sheikh Lousou 
— Gum el — Superstitions — Matting — Visit of Ladies — The Jew 
— Incendiaries — Hazna — Legend of Zinder Well — Kohul — 
Cousin of the Sheikh — Female Sheikh — State of the Country — 
Salutations 233 
CHAPTER XV. 
Political News — Animals of Zinder — Sleepy City — District of Kor- 
gum — Razzias — Family of Sheikh Omer of Bornou — Brothers 
— Sons — Sisters — Daughters — Viziers — Kashallas — Power of 
the Sheikh — A Cheating Prince — Old Slave — Fetishism — Devil 
in a Tuarick's head — Kibabs — Fires — A Prophecy — Another 
Version of the Razzia — Correspondence between Korgum and 
Zinder 250 
CHAPTER XVI. 
Sheikh of Bornou — Arab Women — News from the Razzia — Proces- 
sion of newly-caught Slaves — Entrance of the Sarkee — Chained 
Slaves — My Servant at the Razzia — Audacity of Bornou Slaves 
— Korgum — Konchai — Product of the Razzia — Ghadamsee 
Merchants— Slave-trade — Incident at Korgum — State of Kanou 
— A Hue and Cry — Black Character —Vegetables at Zinder — 
Minstrel — Medi — Gardens — Ladies — Fanaticism — Americans at 
Niffee — Rich People— Tuaricks Sick— Morals — Dread of the 
Sarkee — Fashions . 263 
