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according to others, the results of the expedition are 
much less important. 
All the country razzied is nominally subject to 
the Sheikh of Bornou, so that this Sarkee of Zinder 
has been pillaging the Bornou territories, and car- 
rying off their inhabitants, who are subjects of the 
Sheikh, to raise money to pay his debts. A certain 
enmity exists, it is said, between Konchai and 
Zinder, which formerly was subject to the province 
of Konchai. 
According to one authority, the booty of the raz- 
zia is greatly reduced, even to more than half of what 
was reported. The share of the Sarkee is four hundred 
slaves, and one hundred and twenty slaves he gave 
to his troops. Seven places were attacked, but the 
people had news of the movements of the Sarkee, 
and were prepared to receive him : they shot their 
arrows through their stockades, thick and fast, upon 
the Sarkee and his people, and then retired to the 
rocks and behind the trees, which are abundant. 
Only one country was fairly razzied. Also but few 
beasts were taken, the people having secured all their 
cattle and flocks beforehand. The Sarkee got about 
one hundred bullocks. He took with him no less than 
two thousand horse, a collection from all the petty 
governments in the surrounding provinces, with 
their chiefs. All these forces did little more than 
beat the air. The capture of five hundred slaves 
will not pay the expenses of the expedition, but 
