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CHAPTER XVII. 
News from Tesaoua — Razzia on Sakkatou — Laziness in Zinder — The 
Hajah — Herds of Cattle — More Tuarick Patients — Gardens — My 
Luggage — Adieu to the Sarkee — Present from his Highness — 
Start from Zinder — Country — Birds — Overtake the Kashalla — 
— Slaves for Kanou — Continue the Journey — People of Deddegi 
— Their Timidity — Horse Exercise — Cotton — Strange Birds — Oc- 
cupation of Men and Women — State of African Society — Islamism 
and Paganism —Character of the Kashalla — A Dogberry — Gudde- 
muni — Cultivation — Beggars — Dancing Maidens. 
A Shereef lias come here to-day from Tesaoua, and 
reports that Overweg left that place for Maradee 
about eight days since, with a Tuarick of En-Noor. 
The city of Maradee is but an hour from Gonder, 
and is about twice the size of Zinder. The whole 
occupation of these two cities is that of razzia, and 
their subsistence and riches are all derived from this 
source. These places also swarm with Tuaricks, 
Kilgris, Iteesan, and Kailouees, who join the blacks 
of Maradee and Gouber in their slave-hunting expe- 
ditions. A grand razzia is being perpetrated by the 
united forces of the Sultans of Maradee, Gouber, and 
Korgum, with the assistance of a thousand Tuarick 
horse, on the territories of the Sultan of Sakkatou. 
