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RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO AND MAGARIA. 
and his servants during the night, and that his servants, a Jew and 
a Christian, had got severely wounded. 
Saturday, 20th. — Sent Richard to Magaria with a letter to the 
Gadado, urging him to apply to the sultan for permission to visit 
Jacoba and the southern parts of Houssa, that I might be able to 
ascertain whether and where the Quorra fell into the sea. 
Friday, 26th. — Light airs, with a slight haze ; at 8 strong breezes 
from the E. N. E. The sultan sent to inform me that a courier 
had arrived from the sultan of Kano, informing him of the sheik 
being only a day’s journey to the south of that place ; and the Sultan 
Bello wished to know if, after such intelligence, I wished to go to 
Kashna. Sidi Sheik was the bearer of the message. I, of course, 
said I should remain where I was at present, without making any 
observations, as the news might be untrue, and it was only a catch 
to get at my intentions. 
Saturday, 27th.— Cool and clear. At day-break the Gadado 
arrived from Magaria. In the forenoon I visited him, when he 
told me he was going to Kano : he said that as soon as every thing 
was settled he would write for me to come ; but that I had better 
remain where I was until the sheik had returned, who was at 
Sangia, on his way to Kano. It seems the sheik, before he entered 
the territory of Houssa, had sent to the governors of Katagum, 
Hadiga, Lamema, and Kano, to say he was not at war with Bello 
or his people, but at peace ; that he had only come to take Moha- 
med Mungo and Mohamed Nema, two of the Fellata chiefs on the 
frontiers, who were constantly invading Bornou, and carrying off 
the inhabitants and cattle. Instead however of looking after these 
chiefs, he entered the province of Shena, took all the people and 
cattle he could lay his hands on, and was now on his march to Kano, 
trying to cut off the sultan, who was at Dushie, the frontier town, 
to assist Iladgi Katagum in case of attack ; but on hearing that the 
