RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO AND MAGARIA. 
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Monday, 25th. — BeingChristmas-day,I gave my servant Bichard 
one sovereign out of six I have left, as a Christmas gift ; for he is 
well deserving, and has never once shown a want of courage or 
enterprise unworthy an Englishman. The Gadado early sent to 
know how I was, and desired my servant to tell me he had ac- 
quainted the sultan with all I had said ; and he inquired if my 
heart was difficult as ever, which is their way of asking if I meant 
to talk in the same strong language. Pascoe was to-day sent to the 
house of Ben Hadji Gumso, from that of the Gadado's servant, with 
all his baggage ; whether for the purpose of fishing him or making 
him say what they want, or to make him a slave, I do not know. 
He made a fair recantation of his faith to-day before an Imam and 
the Gadado : the latter told him, when he had done, to go and wash 
himself from head to foot — that yesterday he was a Kaffir, but now 
he was friends with the prophet. I had provisions sent as usual 
in the evening. 
Tuesday, 26th. — Early this morning I w r as visited by Hadgi 
Salah and Malem Moodie, the Gadado’s brother. They said they 
had been sent by the sultan, who had read the letter addressed to 
the Sheik, in which it was said that I had six guns for the Sheik, 
two boxes of balls and one box of powder, and one chest of goods 
as presents, and they were come to demand them. I said it w r as 
untrue; no such thing could have been put in the letter, for that 
the guns belonged to myself and servants, except those of the 
gentlemen who accompanied me, and who had died in Yourriba, 
and two others as presents : this falsehood they must have had 
from their friend Pascoe. The present I had intended to give the 
Sheik I had all ready prepared, and the Gadado entering, I ordered 
my servants to bring it forth : the Gadado, looking over the articles, 
said he did not want any thing of mine ; whatever belonged to the 
Sheik they would take, for he w r as making a very unjust war upon 
