CHAPTER IV. 
JOURNEY FROM BOUSSA, ACROSS THE FERRY OF THE QUOllRA, BY 
GUARRI AND ZEGZEG, TO THE CITY OF KANO. 
Leaving the banks of that branch of the Quorra called Menai 
at 10. 30 in the morning of the 2d of April, I travelled on the 
Wawa road as far as the Cambrie villages mentioned on my way 
to Boussa. Here we turned off south-south-west ^ west., some- 
times near the banks of the river ; the road winding, woody, and 
rocky, and cut up into deep ravines, in which there were pools of 
water, and near which were the traces of numerous wild beasts, 
but few were seen, and those were of the large species of antelope. 
At 2 P.M. halted at one of the rocky ravines to water the horses. 
I heard the Quorra roaring as if there was a waterfall close at 
hand. I ascended the high rocky bank of the ravine, and the 
rocky ridge which here formed the banks of the river, where I 
saw the stream rushing around two low rocky and wooded islands 
and among several islets and rocks, when taking a sudden short 
bend to the westward, the waters dashed with great violence 
against the foot of the rock on which I sat, and which might form 
a precipice of about fifty feet high above the river. Just below 
the islands, and nearly half way across, the river had a fall at this 
time of from three to four feet ; the rest of the channel was 
studded with rocks, some of which were above water. It occurred 
to me that even if Park and Martin had passed Boussa in safety, 
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