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JOURNEY FROM BOUSSA TO KANO. 
several plantations of rice, which was sown in beds in the low and 
swampy grounds ; also beds of sweet potatoes, yams, and a root . 
called goza, like a small short yam, more watery, and of a yellow 
colour inside : it has a broad flat leaf. 
At 2 P. M. entered the town of Baebaegie. I rode to the house 
of the governor, whose head man gave me a part of his house to 
lodge in ; and shortly after I had halted he sent me a sheep, two 
fowls, some wheat, the first I had seen since I left England, and 
plenty of millet for my horses and camel. I sent him in return a 
knife, six yards of red silk, a gilt chain, and a pair of scissars. In 
the evening the governor sent me pudding, boiled rice, milk, and 
stewed meat. 
Wednesday, 19th.— 1 The town of Baebaegie is in latitude 11° 34' 
north, and longitude 9° 13' east, and stands as it w 7 ere in the midst 
of a large plain, having in sight, from the granite mount about a 
musket shot outside the southern gate, the hills of Nora, about ten 
miles east ; to the south, the mountains of Surem, distant about 
twenty-five miles ; to the west I could distinguish the tops of one or 
two of the hills of Aushin, in Zegzeg ; to the north a plain bounded 
only by the horizon ; to the north-east the two mounts inside the 
w r alls of Kano could just be distinguished above the horizontal line, 
bearing north-east by north. One hill bore north, breaking the 
horizontal line, twenty or twenty-two miles ; the land, every where 
the eye turned, looked beautiful ; the grain was just high enough 
to w 7 ave with the wind ; little towms and villages were numerous ; 
the trees full of foliage, none being left hardly but such as were fit 
for use, such as the micadania or butter-tree, the nutta or durow*, 
and the tamarind : heads of fine white cattle were seen grazing on 
the fallow ground ; horses and mares were tethered in the small 
spaces left between the plantations in cultivation ; women, to the 
amount of a hundred, w r ere thrashing out corn w ith large sticks, on 
the flat rock at the base of the mount, the wind, blowing fresh from 
