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YUSUF EN ROUTE. 
I had an affair with Yusuf yesterday morning : 
two boxes of biscuit had been left entire in his room 
at Zinder, and now one of them was found opened 
and a quantity of the biscuit taken out. He and 
his son have eaten nearly all the biscuit on the 
road, together with the Sfaxee and others. It is 
preposterous to think that Government sent these 
biscuits for them, who can eat ghaseb, ghafouley, and 
any grain of this country, and thrive on such food. 
The Germans gave away their biscuit, complaining 
that it was an embarrassment to them. This encou- 
raged the people to plunder me of mine, and now I 
have little left for the rest of my travelling in Africa 
during the present journey. 
12th. — We started early; the weather always 
cool, with fresh breezes from the east. All our peo- 
ple seem in good health. I got up rather stiff, 
having had a good fall from my horse yesterday. 
We made only three hours and a-half, part north- 
east and the rest due east. When I dismounted I 
felt less fatigued, and wrote up my journal. We 
passed several villages en route during these few 
hours ; they occur, indeed, only about half-an-hour 
apart : viz. first in order after Bogussa, Gerremari, 
then Lekarari, Algari, a village of fighi peda- 
gogues, Giddejer, and then Collori, where we have 
halted. It is said we shall still be three days be- 
fore we get to the Sultan Minyo, and we have to- 
pass Gamatak, Barataua, Birmi, Wonchi, Tungari, 
and finally, on the third day, early, we are to arrive at 
