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CONSTABLE OF DAIRMU. 
I was much pleased with the condescension 
of the Kashalla in furnishing me with information 
on routes, and gave him a head of sugar. He 
is a man of great generosity, and immediately 
divided it amongst his people. He says he never 
leaves the Sheikh's presence, and it was solely on 
account of me that the Sheikh sent him to fetch me 
from Zinder. If this be true, their sovereign has 
paid a high compliment to the Mission. 
The only character whom I could discover in 
Dairmu was the constable, or general police-officer. 
This was an ill-looking fellow, with one eye da- 
maged, — a most unamiable Dogberry. He ap- 
proached the Kashalla twice, keeping, however, at a 
timid distance, kneeling down and throwing the dust 
in handfulls over his head, in the most abject manner. 
Yet this man was the dread of the whole neighbour- 
hood ! The exercise of all disagreeable employments 
seems to debase man. Before his superiors he crouches 
and grovels in dust ; with the people he commands, 
he is a very tyrant ! 
10th. — I was joined yesterday evening by the 
rest of the caravan, Said, and Moknee, and my new 
interpreter. Said brings goods for Haj Beshir. 
We started early, and made seven hours ; our route 
varying between east and south-east, through a fine 
wavy country, rising at times into high hills, with 
few trees in comparison to what we have hitherto 
had, and a good deal of cultivation, all ghaseb. 
The sandy soil is well adapted for this kind of 
