CHAPTER X.

My Barracan--Spontaneous Civility on arrival in Damerghou--Ghaseb Stubble--Cactus--Water-Melons--Party of Tuaricks--Boban Birni--Huts of Damerghou--Tagelel--Women of the Village--Population of the Country--Complaisant Ladies--Festivities--Aquatic Birds--Dancing--A Flatterer--A Slave Family--A new Reason for Wife-beating--Hazna Dancers--Damerghou, common ground--Purchase of Ghaseb--Dethroned Sultan--Yusuf--Mohammed Tunisee--Ophthalmia--Part with Barth and Overweg--Presents to Servants--Sheikh of Fumta--Yakobah Slave--Applications for Medicine--Boban Birni--Forest--At length enter Bornou ground--Daazzenai--Tuarick Respectabilities--Detachment of the Salt-Caravan.