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exceed 30,000, the great part of the space inside the wall being 
occupied by fields. The town bears three different names, Segseg, 
Salia, and Sansan ; the first after the heathen tribe from which 
it was taken about the year 1807, by the Felatah of Eashna ; the 
second is the new Felatah name ; and the third , the name by which 
the town is known in Bautshi, and at the same time that of the 
whole province. The country between Bautshi and Salia is entirely 
inhabited by heathen tribes, mostly without any dress, ornamenting 
themselves with a bit of rice-straw in the upper lip. Their villages 
being on the top of the steepest rocks, the Sultan adopted the 
following plan of catching slaves : he occupied with an imposing 
force the fields in the valley, driving all his horses in the then 
green harvest, until the poor fellows on the mountains surrendered 
for fear of starvation, and sent down the number of boys requested 
of them. The Sultan thus obtained in three weeks 200 fine slaves, 
who were marched off immediately to Sokatu for sale.* Towards 
the beginning of August I proceeded from Salia to Bebetgi, one 
day’s distance from Kano, which place I did not visit on account 
of the cholera being very bad there, and the Sultan having just 
died. From Bebetgi I returned to Bautshi by a different road 
through the country of independent heathen tribes, and then, 
following a very kind invitation from the Sultan, I proceeded once 
more to Tindang. After a stay of a few days there, I received an 
acknowledgment of the presents made by me on my first visit, i. <?., 
of 10,000 shells, or about 40 dollars, and a very fine dress ; and 
furnished again with money, I planned a new expedition to the 
Chadda by a new route Being no longer in want of the depot 
in Gombe, and the remainder of my baggage -animals having re- 
covered, I gave orders to Macguire to return to Kuka with all my 
servants but one. 
“ On the 21st of September I left Yacoba once more in a southerly 
direction, moving upon the town of Ukali. The road being entirely 
impracticable for baggage animals, I could only take as much 
luggage as my servant could carry on his head, consisting of a 
lion’s skin to lie on, a blanket, a few shillings’ worth of beads, and 
10,000 shells. I lived for eight days entirely upon flour and water, 
being unable to procure anything else in the small villages on 
the steep and high chain of mountains along which we went. 
Three days from the Chadda the mountains cease, and the country, 
at this season of the year one sheet of water, is covered with 
grass 20 feet high, through which we had to cut a road, so that my 
* “ That Clapperton and Lander had visited the place, I heard from some of 
the oldest inhabitants. 
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