. On horseback through Nigeria; or, Life and travel in the central Sudan . Bornu. In places the swampy hollows containpools of standing water, sometimes of consider-able size, while in the rains all of them becometemporary lakes of greater or less extent. NearKoya a remarkable rounded ridge of loose yellowsand crosses the road, covered with grass andsca:ttered trees, and evidently an immense solitarydune which, with the numerous lower undulationsof loose sand following each other in successionacross the country, bears witness to the formerprevalence of desert conditions over these northernstat
. On horseback through Nigeria; or, Life and travel in the central Sudan . Bornu. In places the swampy hollows containpools of standing water, sometimes of consider-able size, while in the rains all of them becometemporary lakes of greater or less extent. NearKoya a remarkable rounded ridge of loose yellowsand crosses the road, covered with grass andsca:ttered trees, and evidently an immense solitarydune which, with the numerous lower undulationsof loose sand following each other in successionacross the country, bears witness to the formerprevalence of desert conditions over these northernstates. Near Ringim we crossed the broad andshallow valley of the Kogin Hadeija, with a narrowstream in the middle representing the wide riverof the rains. Our stages in the march fromKatagum were respectively Kwotolu, Keffin Hausa,Miga, Dare, Ringim, and Wangara, some of themsmall and poor and unimportant villages, otherslarge and prosperous towns. At each place a cleanand spacious rest-house was available for my use, with kitchen adjoining and huts for the boys, while 248. The Plains of Hausaland the sariki or his representative brought out wood and water and provisions immediately upon my arrival and made arrangements for the housing of the carriers within the town. I could not but contrast the ease and comfort with which I travelled through this western portion of the province of Kano with the trials and troubles which Barth experienced on his journey through the same region. At each camping-place a house, reserved for the use of Europeans only, was ready for my occupation; the local sariki was eager to gratify my slightest wish without prospect of reward; my meals were prepared by a skilful native cook, and served after European fashion by dexterous steward boys; my baggage was transported by reliable carriers and headmen, while my dress and equipment were thoroughly European and my boxes contained many dainties and delicacies wherewith to vary the kaza, kwoi, dankali, and man
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