BRITISH POLICY 455 and pleased at the treatment which had been accorded to them. The Sultan of Sokoto has up to the present time continued to work in the utmost cordiality with the British Resident.

Katsena, which had not yet been visited by troops, was reached on March 28. On the following day, an explanation of the British position and policy, similar to that made at Sokoto, was made to the emir and chiefs, and the emir was installed under conditions similar to those of Sokoto. As Katsena had a special reputation as a centre of learning, assurances were added in the High Commissioner's speech of the willingness of the British Government to give such assistance as it could to education. Here, as in the other towns, the value of a staple currency was discussed, and a rate of exchange fixed between British silver and cowries. Other lesser chiefs of the northern neighbourhood made their submission, and were interviewed and dealt with. From Katsena the High Commissioner marched back to Kano, and on April 2nd, after explanations similar to those of Sokoto and Katsena, the Wombai was installed as emir, with observance of some special ceremonies in historical use at Kano. With Kano, Katagum was brought under British administration. On April 7 the High Commissioner reached Zaria ; there he also installed, after the usual explanations, a new emir, Dan Sidi, who, in consultation with the Sultan and Waziri of Sokoto, had been indicated as the best successor to the emir deposed at Zungeru, and who was willingly accepted by the Zaria Council.

It may be incidentally mentioned, as an illustration of the pace at which work was done in a Protectorate where the loyal desire of every one was to "go slow," that, from the date of leaving Kano on the westward march, to the moment of arrival at Zaria on the return journey, thirty-eight days had elapsed. In that period eight hundred miles of enemy's country had been traversed on foot or horseback, the political situation of Sokoto,