ve obtained a list of the names of the principal sultans in this
part of Africa:

1. Bornou--The Sheikh Omer, the son of the sheikh who reigned in the
time of the first expedition. He has now reigned fourteen years. He has
a good character.

2. Sakkatou--Sultan of the Fellatahs, Ali. He is not so great as his
father Bello, celebrated in the time of the first expedition.

3. Asben, or Aheer--Abd-el-Kader.

4. Maradee--Binono.

5. Gouber--Aliou (Ali).

6. Niffee--Khaleelou. The name of the capital is Gondu. The Sultan is a
Fullan, but independent of Sakkatou, as are many other Fullan princes.

7. Adamaua--Lauel. He is called by the Fullans Madubbu-Adamaua, i.e.
Sultan or Kakam of Adamowa. He is a Fullan, but the people whom he
governs are all Kohlans, or negroes.

8. Yakobah--Ibrahim. His father was called Yakobah, and the country has
probably derived its recent name of the late sultan; the capital is
called Baushi. The rulers are Fellatahs.

9. Kanou--Osman Bel-Ibrahim.

10. Kashna--Mohammed-Bello.

11. Zaria--Mahommed Sani.

12. Kataguni--Abd-er-Rahman.

13. Kadaija--Ahmadou.

14. Timbuctoo--Mohammed Lebbu, a Fellatah.

15. Jinnee--

16. Begharmi--Burkmanda.

17. Mandara--

18. Lagun--

19. Zinder--Ibrahim.

The alliances and enmities, the wars and the intrigues of all these
princes, will one day, perhaps, form materials for some
semi-mythological history, when civilisation has removed its camp to
these intertropical regions. Regular annals, however, there never can
be. No record seems to be kept, except in the unfaithful memories of the
natives; and even if the contrary were the case, posterity would
willingly consign to oblivion all but the salient points of this period
of barbarism and slave-hunting.

Daura is a city of great antiquity, but I have never seen it on the
maps. It is two days from Zinder on the route to Kanou, and has now
about the same number of inhabitants as Zinder, or from 20,000 to
25,000.

Ancient Haussa, according to the Monshee, consisted of seven cities,
viz.

1. Kanou.

2. Kashna. This city is now about three times the size of Zinder.

3. Daura.

4. Zaria.

5. Gouber.

6. Maradee.

7. Zanbara. This city is now about the size of Kashna. It lies beyond
Gouber, not far from Sakkatou.

I went to see the souk. There are two market-days in Zinder: the great
souk on Thursday, and the little one on Friday, the days following one
another. I rapidly passed th