330 MANGA UNCERTAIN WEATHER. 
Minyo and its large province is called by its 
aboriginal name, Manga. It extends south-east to 
a river, on the other side of which begins Bornou 
Proper. But the people of Manga speak the same 
language as the Bornouese. Zinder belongs to the 
circle of Soudan, and its province is called Damagram. 
Mohammed, my interpreter, pretends he saw 
elephants to-day at a considerable distance, looking 
like black trees. Probably to-morrow we may fall 
in with some animals worth seeing. I observed 
two or three swallows, the first this year. We stop 
here to-day to rest. The animals are knocked up, 
and the Kashalla has lost a horse. 
It is from this Manga province that many of the 
villages of Damerghou are populated. Formerly 
the Tuaricks of that province made razzias on these 
out-lying provinces, with the produce of which they 
increased the number of their subjects. 
An European must needs show off in this 
country. Yesterday I was obliged to exhibit to 
all the village, — about a hundred people, — and to- 
day to as many more. It is very fortunate if you 
are not detestably ugly, and can pass muster ; for if 
you are, you will have all sorts of faces made at 
you; and, besides, you will be considered to represent 
a whole people as an ugly race. I walked round 
the village. There may be two hundred huts, and 
about six hundred inhabitants. The sun burns at 
four p.m. most fiercely. I begin to be afraid of it ; 
but the days are uncertain, and sometimes the 
weather is quite chilly. 
