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APPROACH ZINDER. 
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 — Ancient 
Haussa — The Market — Money — Conversation with the Shereef — 
The Sultan at Home — Mixed Race of Zinder — Statistics — Per- 
sonages of the Court. 
Jan. 14th. — We started early, in hopes to reach 
Zinder in the course of the morning. Our course of 
five hours was S. 10° E. from the encampment. The 
route from En-Noor's palace in Damerghou is two 
good days and a-half. After two hours and a-half 
we came to huts in a valley, and a village of thirty 
or forty houses, called Boban Tabki. In three 
quarters of an hour there w r ere villages again. I 
was pleased to see the corn-stacks or field -granaries 
standing in the open country, apart from all houses 
or habitations, illustrating the security of property in 
Zinder and its neighbouring districts. The country 
all around is pleasant, nicely undulating with ridges 
