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the way of Aghadiz, which they had proposed to me ; that there 
was not a Fellata, from the sultan to the meanest man amongst 
them, that could bear the sheik of Bornou, or any one who had 
ever been friends with him ; that, thank God ! I had put nothing 
into his hands for the sheik, or he would have lost his head ; that 
he would (most earnestly repeating it again) advise me to give up 
the sheik's present to them, as I could not keep it. I observed 
that it was the same thing as forcing the letter from me; it would 
be the last injury they could do me; that they had broken all faith 
with me; I could have no more to say to them : after their cheating 
or robbing me of the letter, they might take what they pleased. 
I was only one man, I could not fight against a nation : they could 
not, even by taking aw T ay my life, do worse with me than they had 
done. 
Sunday, 24th.— I saw the Gadado this morning, who com- 
plained that he had got a bad cold: I recommended him to take a 
dose of senna. He said he had to ride out of town a short distance, 
to meet Mohamed Ben Abdullahir, Bello's first cousin by the 
father's side: he is the Fellata king or sultan of Nyffe, and is 
coming here to get permission to go down this year, as before he 
had sent only a relation or head chief to command there, which 
was Omar Zurmie, whom 1 had seen when there. Fie asked me to 
go with him to meet Abdullahir. 1 told him no ; my affairs with 
them w ere now at an end : after the manner in which the sultan 
had behaved to me, it was impossible for them to put a greater 
affront on me than what they had done. He said that when I 
came here before, I had come with letters from the Bashaw of 
Tripoli and the Sheik of Bornou, and that at that time they were 
all at peace ; now they were at war, arid the sultan neither held, nor 
allowed others to hold, any communication with the sheik or his 
people : that I had come then with a letter and presents from the 
