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.Richard was too ill to go to the house, but sent Abdulfitha, the 
Arab, and some other people to secure him, and bring him to the 
house, which they did, and he promised faithfully to behave well 
for the future ; and Richard had him put inside of the hut, he and 
the Arab sleeping at the door. Next day they departed with their 
prisoner for Kano; but when within half a day’s journey of Kano, 
where they halted for the night, during the time Richard was asleep, 
Pascoe slipped out of the hut, taking with him all the arms and 
money Richard had. He immediately mounted, and as he had 
now neither money nor arms, he started for Kano, where he arrived 
early in the morning, and told Hadji Salah to send instantly after 
him, which he did, and Pascoe was brought back in two days 
after, and put in irons in a house in Richard’s charge until the 
arrival of the governor of Kano, when Richard set him at large, 
after his taking an oath before the governor that he would not 
run away, or misbehave, until he joined me : this was the day be- 
fore Richard’s departure from Kano. After leaving Kano, Richard 
was nearly dead with fatigue, weakness, and w r atching; but the 
fourth day he got better. Ten days after Richard arrived at the 
Sanson, or tow n, called FofinBirnee, bordering on Goobur and the 
territory of the rebels of Zamfra. Here he was waiting for an escort 
to take him through the part of the road infested by the rebels of 
Goobur and Zamfra, when Pascoe, the third night after their arrival 
at the Sanson, took an opportunity, when Richard was asleep, of 
breaking open one of my trunks and a gun-box, taking a double- 
barrelled gun, five gilt chains, tw o dozen and a half pairs of scissors, 
all my money, a brace of pistols, seven hundred needles, one dozen 
of penknives, and a large quantity of beads. Richard immediately 
gave the alarm, and the people of the town were sent after him 
directly: they returned with him the next night. He having taken 
the road towards Goobur, and the hyaenas being numerous, and 
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