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until the rainy season, acted on Ebo’s advice, and said 
nothing about the Niger, but merely spoke of the death 
of their fellow-countrymen at Boussa, twenty years 
before, adding that the King of England had sent them 
to the Sultan of Yaourie to recover his papers. 
Although Mansoiah did not treat the brothers Lander 
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quite as graciously as he had treated Clapperton, he 
allowed them to go eight days after their arrival. 
From Katunga the Landers travelled to Borglioo, by 
way of Atoupa, Bumbum—a town much frequented by 
the merchants of Houssa, Borgu, and other provinces 
trading with Gonja—Kishi, on the frontiers of Yoruba, 
and Moussa, on the river of the same name, beyond 
