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Title: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Barth, Heinrich, 1821-1865
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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my marched towards Mandara, without any inci-dent of importance. On the 10th of December, while at Dig-gera, the travellers had an opportunity of returning to Kii-kawa with the sheikh, but they preferred remaining with thearmy, of which the vizier now became commander-in-chief.) Here in Diggera, where we were only one good days marchdistant from the capital of Mandara, our friends were obligedto come to a decision upon the future destination of the expe-dition. After the news which had arrived some days pre-viously that the petty chief of Mandara, whose ancestor hadonce completely defeated a countless host of the Bornu people,had decided upon making resistance, they had been very silentand dejected, and were therefore extremely delighted when atlength, to-day, a servant of the obstinate vassal made his ap-pearance with a present of ten beautiful female slaves and theoffer of complete submission. So at least we were told; butthe affair seemed very doubtful, and a native of Mandara, or,
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(2Cf!) 263 as they say, Ar-Wandala, afterward assured me that his mas-ter, the powerful Tukse of Khakhiindala, had been so farfrom making his submission to the insolent Mothake (bythis name they call the Bdrnu people), that, on the contrary,he treated them with contempt. Which of the two assertionswas correct I do not know; but it is probable that the chiefof Mandara thought it prudent to consent to some sort of com-promise, perhaps through the intermediation of Abd e R,ah-man, the sheikhs brother. Whatever may have been the case, the vizier informed us inthe evening, in a very cheerful manner, that the affair withMandara had taken the most favorable turn, and that, in con-sequence, the sheikh, with a small part of the army, was toretrace his steps, while he himself, with the far larger portion,was to undertake an expedition into the Miisgu country, andthat we, of course, were to accompany him. Now we werewell aware that the object of this expedition was partly tomake slaves, and that

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