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SLAVE-MARKETS. 
gotten Lis troubles in Algeria, and is quiet now. 
He writes well, and lias received a good education. 
His country is one day east of Tetuan, in the Rif 
mountains. He is likely to be very useful to the 
Sheikh in Zinder. 
I visited the souk again in the evening, and 
made a few small purchases of curiosities ; but there 
are very few things to be got in this market, and 
those mostly come from Kanou. What things are 
made here are of the rudest manufacture. 
I passed the slave-market, and was greatly 
shocked to see a poor old woman for sale 
amongst the rest of human beings. She was 
offered for six thousand wadas, about ten shillings 
in English money. It is quite impossible to con- 
jecture of what use such a poor old creature can be. 
The Shereef Kebir made a present of a little boy 
to Said of Haj Beshir this evening. The poor little 
fellow looked very pitiful. He was stolen from 
Daura. He has only one cheek marked with the 
shonshona, because his mother lost all the children 
which she bare before him ; and the custom is, 
when a mother thus loses her children, to scarify 
only one cheek. 
The mode of supplying the slave-markets of the 
north and south is truly nefarious, and perhaps 
surpasses all the wickedness of the Tuaricks. The 
Sarkee of Zinder wants gour-nuts, and has no 
money to purchase them ; he sends his servants or offi- 
cers to a neighbouring village, and they steal in open 
