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be well paid by the consul at Tripoli. I also desired him to allow 
Richard one thousand cowries, to keep the house and horse ; my 
poor little Boussa mare having died a few days before. I had been 
obliged to draw a bill for five hundred Spanish dollars in favour of 
Hamada ben Medoon, for which 1 had to take a horse at more than 
double its price, and only got i500 cowries for eacli dollar — just 
one half,- — such is the rate of the country. This money I left in 
the hands of Hadje Salah for the use of my servants, which 
amounted to 250,000 cowries (not 100 dollars), the price of the 
horse being 500,000 cowries. I left them with much i egret, as I 
was in very bad health myself. 1 was accompanied as far as the 
horse gate (Coffin Dalkie) by Hadje Salah, Shereef Ali, a Tunis 
merchant, Hamada ben Medoon, and all the principal Arabs, as 
they thought that I should bring about a peace between the sheik 
of Bornou and Bello. 
After leaving the walls of Kano the country was well cultivated 
on every side, and planted with Indian corn, millet, doura, potatoes, 
indigo, and cotton ; but the road was very disagreeable, all the 
hollows being full of water. At 11 . 40 came to a stream of running 
water, at this season at least a quarter of a mile broad. At 12. 30 
got all the people, and baggage, and the camels, across. 1 was 
wet up to my seat in the saddle, and once or tw ice the horse was 
swimming. Started again, and at four halted at the walled town 
of Toffa, the walls of which, since the death of Duntungwa, the 
rebellious governor of Dumburta, have been allowed to go to 
decay ; and unless they are soon repaired and built up, the town 
will, in a year or two, be without walls. I w ? as provided with a 
house, and had even milk and pudding — not like our puddings in 
Britain, but Indian corn-flour boiled in an earthen pot, and stirred 
with a large stick, without salt or fat, and, when thick enough, it is 
made up into pieces of about two pounds each, and eaten with 
milk, if it can be got ; if not, with a sauce made of the dried leaves 
