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JOURNEY FROM BOUSSA TO KANO. 
bank shelving gradually down to the river side, where there is a 
second temporary town composed of the huts of the merchants: 
here and in the village all was bustle and confusion. A caravan 
going to Gonja was halted on the eastern bank ; on the western, 
the gofhe from Gonja, with kolla nuts, &c. The village was filled 
with horses and men dressed out in their gayest trappings : here 
merchants were offering horses for sale ; there their slaves, with 
gay glass beads, cords of silk, unwrought silk, and tobes and turka- 
does for sale ; some dancing and drumming ; while others, more 
wicked, were drinking and rioting. 1 was provided with a good 
house, and received presents of milk, honey, eggs, ducks, sheep, and 
goats, as soon as it was known I had arrived ; but I returned the 
whole of them, and said I would accept of nothing until my servants 
and baggage arrived. Several people came and said they had left 
Wawa early in the morning, and that my baggage was on the road. 
The widow Zuma, who is at a neighbouring village, sent me boiled 
rice and a fowl, and also an invitation to go and stop at her house 
until my things came, and I should cross the river ; but my anxiety 
for my baggage, and my being rather unwell, prevented me accept- 
ing her invitation. I had a visit from the taya, who declares the 
baggage will be here in the course of a short time. He has now 
changed his tone : he says I must buy bullocks and pay for them 
at once, as he will not carry my baggage : he will buy the bullocks 
for me, and find men to drive them ; that he will sell me those 
which he has bought from the widow ; and that he will trust to 
my generosity for a present when I arrive at Kano ; that my bag- 
gage, he said, would be here directly, and advised me to go and 
stop at the widow’s until it came. Towards evening my anxiety 
was very great on account of my baggage, as no appearance of it, 
or any tidings that 1 could depend upon was to be learnt. The 
governor’s son of Wawa, who is here, offered to go to Wawa and 
see what was the reason they had not come. 
Tuesday, 4th. — I found on his return from Wawa, to my great 
