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JOURNEY FROM BOUSSA TO KANO. 
territory, ami would provide every thing, and see me off, escorted 
by the bowmen, before they returned ; that the bowmen were the 
best escort in the woods I had to cross between Guari and Zegzeg, 
and, God willing, I should perform it in safety, as I had done the 
long and dangerous journey I had already come ; but that if I 
thought any other way was better, or if there was any thing 1 
wanted, to mention it, and if it could be got in Guari I should 
have it. I thanked him ; said, if there were any curious animals 
or birds, I should like to have them ; and if he had any written 
account of the country, I should like that more than all. He said 
he had no written account of the country ; that no one troubled 
their heads about affairs of that kind ; that if I would remain with 
him in Guari some time, I should have all the curious birds and 
beasts in the country, but that at present every person that could 
be spared was out in the country attending the growing grain ; 
that they had a scarcity over all the country last year, and they 
were afraid the same thing might happen this year, as the rains as 
yet had not been very abundant. After I left the chief I returned 
home, and opened all the cases, and put the things that were wet 
out to dry. 
Guari, formerly a district of the province of Ivashna, was con- 
quered by the F ellatas a short while after their rising, along with the 
rest of Houssa. At the death of old Bello, this, with the greater 
part of the province of Kashna, made itself independent by joining 
in the Towia, or confederation and rebellion against the Fellatas. 
Bonaga, the chief of Zamfra, was the first to rise and shake the 
spear, as they express it. He was joined instantly by the inhabit- 
ants of the province of Goober, whose chief, a lad, was kept as a 
slave in Sackatoo ; but, by the assistance of his countrymen, had 
made his escape, and now heads his people. The northern part 
of Kashna was the next to join, under a son of their former chief 
or governor. Guari and Katongkora, both districts of Kashna, 
