Up against it in Nigeria . I had completed a tourof fifteen very strenuous months, incessantlytrekking, and having slept at over three hundreddifferent towns all told; and I felt too thoroughlyweary to face the long twenty-four days journeyback to Kano on a horse. So I bought Georgesspare light trap and horse for £25, and trustedto being able to re-sell it at Kano. The road between Geidam and Maiduguri wasappallingly sandy, and the going so severe a strainon the horse, that one could only go at walkingpace most of the way. After Geidam, however,it got a bit better, and also, as a relief horse,
Up against it in Nigeria . I had completed a tourof fifteen very strenuous months, incessantlytrekking, and having slept at over three hundreddifferent towns all told; and I felt too thoroughlyweary to face the long twenty-four days journeyback to Kano on a horse. So I bought Georgesspare light trap and horse for £25, and trustedto being able to re-sell it at Kano. The road between Geidam and Maiduguri wasappallingly sandy, and the going so severe a strainon the horse, that one could only go at walkingpace most of the way. After Geidam, however,it got a bit better, and also, as a relief horse, Ibought the famous Danda,1 whom I putstraight between the shafts, and drove withoutany breaking! The trek to Kano via Katagum was uneventful,save for an encounter with a wounded wart-hog,whose onslaught Bisalla bravely received with a 1 A piebald, who subsequently must have covered almostall the possible mileage in the Protectorate. I used to drivehim to the polo-ground, ride him in two ehukkers, and thendrive him back !. A LAKE CHAD POLO-CLUB GROUP.
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