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TUARICK PATIENTS PALMS. 
stealing seems to bring its own punishment along 
with it. 
A posse of Tuarick patients assailed me very 
early this morning*. The Tuaricks, who have more 
intellect than the blacks, let loose their imagination 
to fancy they have all sorts of complaints. Thus I 
have more patients from them than from the people 
of Zinder, and am quite undeceived as to my having 
done with this tribe when I entered the gates of this 
town. There is, however, this difference now, that 
they treat me with the greatest respect, and are very 
quiet, bringing presents instead of demanding pre- 
sents. 
The Tuaricks of Gurasu, I hear, have a bad 
name, and are troublesome to the Sheikh. 
I went to the gardens this morning and yesterday 
morning — it is an immense relief from the enclosure 
of huts in town — but have not observed anything 
new. I am told that the suburbs of Kanou are full of 
palms. Zinder, if the people were industrious, could 
have its forests of palms, bearing luscious fruit twice 
a-year. But, alas ! the excitement of the razzia de- 
stroys the taste for all rational industry. What bandit 
could ever settle down into a tiller of the ground ? 
8th. — The people came this morning, in a great 
hurry, to take off the luggage, and afterwards pre- 
tended that I should go to-morrow, whilst the bag- 
gage must be forwarded to-day. This arrangement 
I positively refused to comply with, being determined 
to stop no longer. 
