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permit me to part with any, unless 1 had previously obtained his 
consent. This answer by no means pleased him : but on my telling 
him he should be handsomely rewarded on our safe arrival at Soc- 
catoo, he became a little appeased. 
19th. — Liberated old Pascoe in the morning, who had behaved 
peaceably since his imprisonment, and seemed truly sorry for the 
offence he had committed ; and at two in the afternoon went out 
of the town, but was obliged to leave a bullock behind, being lamed 
and unable to proceed. Travelled till eleven o’clock the next 
night, when we arrived much fatigued at Magaria. The poor 
camels and horses could hardly stand, and suffered dreadfully from 
thirst, not having drank during this long journey. 
21st and 22d. — The horses and camels not being sufficiently 
recovered to continue the journey, staid at Magaria botli these 
days. Resided at a house belonging to the Gadado, who supplied 
me with abundance of provisions. Received a message from him 
to come to see him, with my gun, in order to show the head men 
of the town the manner in which birds were shot in my country. 
I soon gratified their curiosity by firing at a small bird, at a distance 
of fifty yards. The whole of them testified the greatest astonish- 
ment on taking it up, and would not for a long time believe it was 
really dead. 
23d. — To my great joy 1 entered the gates of Soccatoo in the 
afternoon, about two o'clock, after a tedious and wearisome jour- 
ney of nearly a month. Not having seen my master for three 
months, I hastened to his house ; but not finding him at home, I 
went to the Gadado’s, where, I was told, he had gone. My master 
was in earnest conversation with the Gadado and an old Arab, and 
was much surprised when informed of the reason of my leaving 
Kano : he spoke with warmth of the artful and unhandsome con- 
duct of the sultan ; and after this act of duplicity on the part of 
