. Auf dem Pferderücken durch Nigeria; oder, Leben und Reisen im zentralen Sudan . ught, um geritten zu haben, um mich zu seiner Stadt zu leiten. Gegenwärtig jedoch wemet eine kleine Gruppe der Stadtbewohner auf Fuß getragen und schmutzige Kleider, die sich als thegaladima und einige der anderen Häuptlinge, die hatte sich herausgegangen, um mich zu begrüßen. Sie erklärten, dass der sarikin Ningi vom Resident zu Bauchion eiligen Angelegenheiten gerufen worden sei und dass er mich dort nicht persönlich empfangen konnte. Sie, wie-überhaupt, waren deputed worden, um die Ehrungen zu tun, und atpnce drehte und führte den Weg zum Rest-Kamlp, jwhich war ungefähr auf halbem Weg oben

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. On horseback through Nigeria; or, Life and travel in the central Sudan . ught to have ridden out toconduct me to his town. Presently, however, wemet a small party of the townspeople on foot inworn and dirty gowns, who proved to be thegaladima and some of the other chiefs who hadwalked out to welcome me. They explained thatthe sarikin Ningi had been summoned to Bauchion urgent business by the Resident, and was there-fore unable to receive me in person. They, how-ever, had been deputed to do the honours, and atpnce turned and led the way to the rest-camlp, jwhich was situated about half-way up the valley.My men had considerable difficulty in finding waternear the camp at this season, and I had therefore toask the galadima to send down a plentiful supplyfrom the town above, where ther^ were a numberof springs amongst the boulders. I intimated tothe galadima also my intention of visfting Lumbu, on the northern margin of the mass, and askedhim to have the necessary guides ready as I passedthrough the town at dawn. I awoke at cock-crow, and, having called the 238, . On the Borders of Hausaland carriers, set out in the first place for the townabove. After passing the remains of the doublewalls which formerly barred the approach from thevalley, and climbing the short but steep ascent atits head, we entered the town, and found that thegreater number of the huts were situated over thebrow of the hill in an irregular, saucer-shaped de-pression on the summit. The sarikis house wasthe only pretentious building in the town, and nearit we found the galadima waiting with the guides, It was still early and the morning was chill andcold, and the inhabitants were only beginning tostir, and from what we could see of them theyappeared to be poorly and even primitively clad.Our road led through the scattered groups of huts, out through the western gate, and over the brokensummit of the granite plateau, cleared and culti-vated in the neighbourhood of the town and coveredwith thin and open bu

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