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FROM ZEGZEG TO BADAGRY. 
27th. — Left at eight o’clock in the morning, escorted hy eight 
armed men on horseback and four on foot, passed unmolested 
through the wood, and pitched our tent near Kazigee, at 7 P. M. 
Giving the men fifty needles each for their trouble, I ordered them 
to return to Fatica. We had now left the Iloussa country, and 
entered Guarie. 
28th. — Previous to leaving Kazigee, a tax of 600 cowries, or a 
present was demanded, before we could go on : preferred paying 
the money ; and, travelling till three in the afternoon, halted near 
Maccondie, a small walled town. Here I fell in with a gaffie of 
merchants on their way to Coulfo. Purchased a small goat of them 
for 1800 cowries. 
29th. —Left the town at six in the morning, and at twelve at 
noon fixed our tent outside the walls of the city of Guarie, the 
king of which sent me a quantity of stewed beef, a calabash of 
honey, and milk and tuah. 
30th. — Unable to cross the river to-day. 
31st. — Waited on the king this morning, and gave him three 
yards of light blue damask, the same quantity of blue and scarlet 
silk, an unwritten journal-book, and a red cap. To one of the chief 
men a red cap and a hundred needles. The old king asked the 
reason of my having been so long on the road from Kano, as mer- 
chants had told him 1 had left a great while ago. I answered I 
had attempted the route to Funda, it being much nearer to my 
country than any other. He observed, in reply, that if I wished to 
go that way then, he would send a messenger with me, and had no 
doubt of my reaching Funda in safety, the king of that place being 
his particular friend. I expressed much regret at not being able 
to embrace his kind offer, telling him my presents were nearly ex- 
hausted, and I had nothing good enough to give the king : on this 
account I felt no inclination to pass through his dominions. The 
king of Guarie had a eunuch in his service who was born not fin 1 
