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MEDICINE — BOB AN BIRNI. 
Curious applications are made for medicines to 
cure various afflictions, moral and physical, amongst 
these people. A woman, to-day, begged for a me- 
dicine to prevent her children from dying. She had 
had many children, and all had died. Another woman 
applies for a medicine to prevent her husband from 
liking her rival, and to make him place his affection 
on her. A man demands medicine for good luck, 
and says he is always unfortunate. — Good people, I 
am not the physician to be called in in these cases. 
It is night, and En-Noor has not made his ap- 
pearance. I am travelling with his wife and the 
other women ; besides, there are a number of male 
slaves and some thirty camels of salt. Probably his 
highness will go another way to Zinder. 
I believe that Fumta Bou Beker is quite an in- 
dependent village, and that all the great towns and 
villages here have an independent jurisdiction of 
their own. According to a slave of En-lNToor, there 
are two sultans. 
\2tli. — The morning was cool and windy. We 
started pretty early, and moved one hour through 
huts scattered amidst the ghaseb stubble. Then 
came three hours of undulating ground, uncultivated. 
Afterwards we fell in with huts again ; and in two 
hours more reached the conical-shaped mount called 
Boban Birni. It consists of a sort of coarse sand- 
stone, and is in part overgrown with herbage. 
From the encampment to Mount Boban Birni was 
a distance of six hours S.W. It can be seen from 
