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ITINERANT SCHOOLMASTERS. 
do not offer human sacrifices ; their religious rites 
consist principally in worshipping trees, to which 
they sacrifice at certain seasons. The Fellatahs 
are always at war with the people of Maradee, but 
Gouber is at peace with Sakkatou. In Maradee 
there is one large stone- and -mud house for the 
Sultan ; all the rest of the houses are bell-shaped 
huts. The place has a numerous population. 
Tesaona is also independent and self-governed, as 
are most of the places hereabouts. 
I had a visit from two itinerant schoolmasters, 
natives of Bornou. From these I learned that there 
does exist a little education amongst the Kailouees. 
There is a village near called Amurgeen, three hours 
from Tintalous, where children are sent from all the 
places around, so that it forms a species of college 
or university. It is to this college that En-Noor 
sends his sons and grandsons. These itinerant 
pedagogues are negroes ; and it is certainly a 
curious circumstance that from Central Africa in- 
struction should migrate northwards. But the Kai- 
louees have little pride in this respect; although 
boasting of the name of Tuaricks, and accounting- 
themselves white people, or allied with the whites, 
they do not scruple to receive education from the 
negroes of Bornou, whilst certainly it would be 
very easy to have Kailouee schoolmasters. 
I heard, from my friend Tibbaou that En-Noor's 
territory in Tesaoua is simply a village, at some 
distance from the medeeneh, or city, where there 
