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RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO AND MAGARIA. 
Saturday, 4tli. — Morning cool and clear. The sultan did not 
leave last night, but to-day at 3 P. M. I had to go and see the 
chronometer carefully put up to bear carriage without injury: it 
is considered the most valuable part of his property, and numbers 
come from a great distance to hear it strike. One of the gold 
watches he has already spoiled, and I have had to give his brother 
Atego my silver watch for it in return, but I have got the worse 
bargain. If the sultan had not asked me I should never have done it, 
as it has the new patent key, and kept a regular rate from England. 
Sunday, 5tli. — 1 did not start this morning, as I had been very 
unwell all night: got a new camel, and employed a Tuarick to buy 
me another, as they are nearly 2000 cowries cheaper here than 
they are at Kano. 
Monday, 6th. — Cool and clear. At 6 A. M. left Magaria. I 
rode my new camel, as his load was light, and I had no horse. At 
1 1 A. M. halted at a spring for an hour, and started again at 2. 
Arrived at Soccatoo. 
Tuesday, 7th. — This day I visited the sultan about noon, and, at 
his request, taught a man, one of his servants, how to wind up the 
time-piece, which is one of eight days. In the afternoon I was 
visited by three Fellatas, Hadji Omer from Foota 'Fora, Malem 
Mahomed from Timbuctoo, and the third from a neighbouring town 
to Timbuctoo. Malem Mahomed says the whole of the district 
called Timbuctoo is at present under the authority of the Tuaricks ; 
that the principal town is called Timbuctoo ; and that their gold 
comes from Ashantee, Gonga, and Bambarra, where they exchange 
it for salt to the Tuaricks, and cloths to the inhabitants of F ez, 
Ghadamis, and Tripoli ; that Timbuctoo produces no gold, it being 
only the great market where all the gaffles from the north and east 
meet those of the south and west ; that few Arabs now come from 
Fez and Morocco, owing, he says, to the Arabs, called Waled Dleim, 
cutting off the caravans. 
