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JOURNEY FROM BOUSSA TO KANO. 
from the sultan of Boussa arrived, bringing me a present of a beau- 
tiful little mare. The messenger of the sultan was accompanied by 
another person from the midaki, a female slave, bringing me rice, 
yams, and butter. He brought a message from the sultan desiring 
me to kill a she-goat, and distribute the flesh amongst the inhabitants 
of Ivoolfu the day before 1 left it ; that he had distributed gora nuts 
and salt for me at Boussa, which would do for Koolfu. 1 was also 
desired not to eat any meat that came cooked from the west, and 
which would be sent by the Magia’s female relations from Tabra, 
as they intended to take away my life by poison. Through the 
night continual rain, thunder, and lightning. 
Thursday, 25th. — Sent Sheeref Mohamed to Raba, a town pos- 
sessed by the Fellatas, three days south of this, on the banks of the 
Quorra, with a message to the late Imam of Boussa, who, he says, 
has got some of the books belonging to the late Mungo Park : one, 
he tells me, was carried to Yourriba by a Fellata, as a charm and 
preservative against musket balls. He is either to buy them, or I 
will give him Arabic books for them in exchange. 
Friday, June 17th. — This evening I was talking with a man 
that is married to one of my landlady’s female slaves, called her 
daughter, about the manners of the Cumbrie and about England ; 
when he gave the following account of the death of Park and his 
companions, of which he was an eye-witness : He said that when 
the boat came down the river, it happened unfortunately just at 
the time that the Fellatas first rose in arms, and were ravaging 
Goober and Zamfra ; that the sultan of Boussa, on hearing that the 
persons in the boat were white men, and that the boat was different 
from any that had ever been seen before, as she had a house at one 
end, called his people together from the neighbouring towns, at- 
tacked and killed them, not doubting that they were the advance 
guard of the Fellata army then ravaging Soudan, under the com- 
mand of Malem Danfodio, the father of the present Bello ; that 
