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MIGHT AND RIGHT. 
bashes, bows and arrows, axes, and some other tri- 
fles. Of Jive-stock, all the fowls were seized and 
slaughtered on the spot; also a lamb. My inter- 
preter tells me that all the slaves of the Govern- 
ment of Bornou are marauders, and that it was for 
this reason the Sarkee of Zinder complained to the 
Sheikh of the government caravans seizing the 
people and sacking their villages. In all my life I 
never saw such an instance of the triumph of might 
over right. My servants, most of them Bornouese, 
joined their brethren with great eagerness. To 
remonstrate with them is useless. I have had se- 
veral quarrels of remonstrance already since I have 
been in the Sheikh's territory, about similar acts of 
brigandage ; and if I go on, I shall quarrel with 
all the world of Africa, every hour of the day. 
I reproached my servants ironically. I told them 
some one would soon come and take their camels 
and bullocks, and they must not complain to me to 
get them redress. But it is astonishing to see with 
what zest these freed slaves from the north coast 
enter again upon their old habits of plunder and 
razzia. The education of Africa consists in pre- 
paring it for the razzia. All the fine-spirited youth 
of all the great families look forward to this as their 
only occupation. 
We reached the rocky hills called Shaidega, near 
which the lake terminates, stretching from Gudde- 
mani. At the base of these rocky heights is a sprink- 
ling of huts, and there are indeed many sprinklings 
