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RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO AND MAGARIA. 
Though I taught a man how it should be done, and to do it every 
eight days, they have always neglected to do it : only for such an ex- 
cellent time-piece, the present of his majesty, and my having brought 
it so far without injury, I would not have put a finger to it again ; 
hut the Gadado coming, and asking me to go with him, I showed 
another how to wind it up. 
Saturday, 9th. — News from Magaria this day arrived, that the 
people of Goobur had formed a camp outside the walls of their 
capital, and there elected a new sultan or chief, in the room of the 
one killed at our attack on Coonia ; that he must go on some ex- 
pedition against their enemies before he returns to his house, such 
being their custom : but at what part he is going against they do 
not as yet know. The custom of the Gooburites is at first that, 
when they elect a chief, which they do outside the walls of the 
capital, where they sacrifice a bullock, a sheep, and a goat, under a 
tree, they must go on some expedition against their enemies before 
they return to their house. 
Tuesday, 12th. — Part of the tribe of Killgris, Tuaricks, or 
Berbers, who inhabit that part of the desert between Timbuctoo 
and Tuat, and to the north of Tadela, and Ader, come on their 
annual summer or dry season visit to Soccatoo ; also part of the 
tribe of Etassan, from that part called Anbur, which lies to the 
north of Kashna and Zinder in Bornou. The latter brought the 
sultan a present of a fine Tuarick horse from their sultan, who has 
not come this year to pay his yearly respects to Bello, as is the 
custom. The Tuaricks, or Berbers, inhabiting the south part of the 
desert, consist of the tribes of Etassan, Killgris, Killaway, and 
Timsgeda. Ajudiz is the capital, and they jointly depose their 
sultan and elect another when they think fit, which is generally 
once every two or three years. They do not kill the old one ; he 
only retires from his office, and remains as a common man. 
