PILLAGE ON THE WAY. 
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CHAPTER XVIII. 
A Village plundered — Shaidega — Animals — Our Biscuit — Villages en 
route — Minyo — Respect for Learning — Monotony of the Country 
— A Wedding — Palsy — Slave-agents — Kal, Kal — Birni Gamatak — 
Tuaricks on the Plain — Palms — Sight the Town of Gurai — Bare 
Country — Bearings of various Places — Province of Minyo — Visit 
the Sultan — Audience-room — Fine Costume — A Scene of Bar- 
baric Splendour — Trade — Estimate of Wealth — How to amuse a 
Prince — Small Present — The Oars carried by Men — Town of 
Gurai — Fortifications. 
Feb. Wth. — I rose early, and started as usual, as 
quick as possible. We made seven hours and a- 
half, and halted at a small village called Bogussa. 
After the fifth hour we came to the hamlet of 
Dugurka, which the Kashalla delivered up to 
plunder, because the people refused to give him 
some water. This is the story of my servants, 
which I do not believe. But certain it is, that, 
after the Kashalla passed the hamlet, his people, 
who loitered behind, commenced a general pillage 
of the poor little village. The inhabitants had all 
fled at our approach, save one old man. All the 
hut-doors were violently torn away and the insides 
ransacked. The spoils were leben, bowls or cala- 
