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GHADAMSEE MERCHANTS. 
these people never sit down to count the cost. 
Their reckoning-days are few and far between. 
There is a report here that the Sultans of 
Maradee, Gouber, Korgum, and Tesaoua, have all 
gone together on a razzia to the territory of Sak- 
katou, and a few of the people of Zinder have gone 
with them ; and this is the reason given for horses 
being now scarce in Zinder. 
Haj Beshir has sent a message from Kuka, that 
I am to quicken my steps thitherward. The kafila 
from Mourzuk has arrived, and many Arabs from 
the north. 
Of gubaga, called by the people of Zinder, ferri, 
four draas are sold in Zinder for one hundred wad as, 
about twopence. This native cotton cloth, when 
doubled, makes tents impervious to the summer rain. 
There are about fifty Ghadamsee merchants in 
Kanou and Boushi, capital of Yakoba, the principal 
of whom (here described as Maidukia) are : — 
Haj Mohammed Bel Kasem. 
Haj Tahir. 
Mairimi. 
Haj Mohammed Ben Habsa. 
Hemed Basidi. 
Kasem Ben Haiba. 
Haj Ali. 
Mohammed Makoren. 
Haj Hoda. 
Haj Abdullah. 
