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TRAVELS  IN AFRICA.      Chap. XXIII.
 

                   CHAP. XXIII.



            GAZAWA.•—RESIDENCE IN KATSENA.



  Saturday,   ^E made a  good start with our  camels,

 January isth.  which  having been treated to a consider¬

able allowance of salt on the first  day of our halt,

had made the best possible use of these  four  days'

rest to recruit their strength.   At the considerable

village of Kalgo, which we passed at a little less than

five miles beyond our encampment, the country became

rather hilly, but only for a short distance.  Tamarinds

constituted the greatest  ornament of the  landscape.

A solitary traveller attracted our notice on account

of his odd attire, mounted as  he  was on a  bullock

with three large pitchers on each side.  Four miles

beyond Kalgo the character  of  the country  became

suddenly changed, and  dense groups of diim-palms

covered  the  ground.   But  what pleased me  more

than  the  sight of these slender  forked  trees  was

when, half an hour after mid-day, I recognized my

splendid old friend the bore-tree, of the valley BogheP,

  * It might seem to some readers that there is some connection

between the name of the valley and the tree; but I think it is

merely accidental.  The  Hausa language is not a  written lan¬

guage;  but if the natives were  to write  the name "bore" or

" baure," they would certainly write it with an r, and not with &gh.