. A cavallo attraverso la Nigeria; o, vita e viaggio nel Sudan centrale. Appena fuori thenorhern avvalersi della città. Poi condusse il meto della casa che era stata preparata per me, eattualmente portava abbondanti rifornimenti di uccelli, uova, noci macinate e gmnea-com, e nell'eveningcotta cibo per i portatori e frutta e latte fresco per me. La mattina seguente abbiamo lasciato Shira dalla porta sud, e passando attraverso un gap nel cerchio di colline, è entrato di nuovo la op>en pianura ondulata. Beingeccellente pascolo-terreno, il paese è stato qui abitato soprattutto da Fulani, i cui villaggi wereset sulla sabbia

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. On horseback through Nigeria; or, Life and travel in the central Sudan . just outside thenorthern Avail of the town. He then conducted meto the house which had been prepared for me, andpresently brought abundant supplies of fowls, eggs, ground-nuts, and gmnea-com, and in the eveningcooked food for the carriers and fruit and freshmilk for myself. Next morning we left Shira by the southern gate, and passing through a gap in the circle of hills, entered again the op>en undulating plain. Beingexcellent grazing-ground, the country was hereinhabited mostly by Fulani, whose villages wereset on sandy rising ground exposed to the full glareand heat of the sun. We stopped to rest at oneof these villages, and then continued our journeyover the open undulating plain until we reacheda strip of high and open bush, through which thereran a river-bed with the water now confined tostagnant pools. On the farther bank the road ranparallel with the ruined wall of some large town, the ditch now filled with thorny undergrowth andthe rampart sunk to a rounded mound. The city 228. as < On the Borders of Hausaland had probably been taken and devastated in thedays of the Fulani conquest, and now the oncebusy site was occupied only by the scattered hutsof the settlers who had returned to farm the fieldsof their forefathers. Presently we reached Dingaia, a populous Fulani town, with a busy market, whichhad evidently outgrown the former wall. HereI camped for the night in the smoky entrance-hall of the sarikis compound, with the swallowsnesting in the roof. It chanced to be market-day, and the carriers found ample provisions on sale, while the sariki supplied me with a calabash ofexcellent milk in the evening. The headmen ofthe town appeared to be all very devout Moham-medans, and entered the mosque every two hoursto recite their prayers, the mosque itself beingsituated near my house, and consisting of a thatchedhut, enclosed by high walls of matting and shadedby leafy trees. I was awakened at

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