378 THE EXl'LORATION OF THE NIGER two fires, with Kabba on one side and the Serki Kebbi on the other."

When Osman, returning to the chaise, spoke to us again about the column supposed to have gone to Mossi, I said to him — "You see, the Naba of Wagadugu gave the same kind of reception to the Frenchmen who went to visit him last year as Amadu Saturu has given to us at Say. So the chief of the whites has given orders that his village should be destroyed, and it will be your turn next year, I hope." They then went away plunged in reflection. Visitors are all the fashion just now. On Thursday, May 31, a young man came to our market wearing a