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                CHAP.  XXXVII.



           MY JOURNEY HOME FROM a'dAMAWA.



Having  made  these  few remarks  with regard  to

the interesting work of conquest  and colonization

which is going on in A'damawa, I now return to my

quarters in Ribago, in order to carry the reader with

me on my journey back from that country to Kukawa.

  Our luggage  had been so  wetted  on the   Wednesdav

preceding afternoon, while crossing the mayo   June 25fch-

Binti, that we  were obliged  to stay in Ribago the

whole morning, in  order to dry it.   The horseman

who had escorted me out of the town had returned;

and in his stead Ibrahima, with a companion on foot,

had made his  appearance with orders from the go¬

vernor to escort  me to the  very  frontiers of  the

country.  In order  to render him  a more sociable

companion, I thought it well to make  him a present

of a tiirkedi.  My mallem had not come along  with

14s; and I could not be  angry with him for  not

desiring to  return to Kiikawa, where he had  been

Retained against his will.   The horse on which I had

mounted him he had well deserved for his trouble.

Ibrahima told me that Katiiri  had come after me as
 

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