CHAPTER V. 
JOURNEY FROM KANO TO THE CAMP OF BELLO, AND FROM THENCE 
TO SOCCATOO. 
On entering Kano, I immediately bent my way to the house of 
my former agent, Hadje Hat Salah Byoot ; hut I soon saw that both 
he and the Arabs that were present M ould rather I had come from 
the eastward : they were all in fact in low spirits about the war 
with Bornou, which had shut them out, for some time past, from 
all communication with Fezzan or Tripoli. The caravan for these 
countries had left Kano twenty days ago for Kashna, to try whether 
they could not succeed to get home by way of the Tuaric desert. 
This has deprived me of the opportunity of sending home my 
journals and letters ; hut it would have been a great risk, as they 
have to go through the capital of the son of the former sultan of 
Kashna, who is in rebellion against the Fellatas; and the Tuarics 
have not allowed a caravan to pass, except those of the merchants 
of Ghadamis, for these many years past ; and on these they levy a 
contribution. 
Hadje Hat Salah Byoot, my former and present agent, is the 
richest man in Kano, an Arab of the tribe of Majabra, inhabiting 
the country to the east of Angela, adjoining it. They, like the 
Angela people, are great merchants. He was formerly the agent 
and merchant of the hereditary governors of Fezzan; he was the 
cause of their being removed and dispersed by the bashaw of 
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