not always fatal, and often
cured by the remedies known in these countries.

The villages of Korgum are called Tangadala Agai. Not getting many
slaves there, the Sarkee attacked two or three villages of Konchai. This
province contains some three hundred villages. Ganua and Tanbanas were
the places razzied. From the latter place six hundred slaves were
obtained, nearly half of the whole captured. The total product of the
razzia is about fifteen hundred; a thousand for the Sultan's share, and
five hundred for the troops and volunteers. It is said this thousand
will not suffice to pay the Sultan's debts, and it was on account of the
fewness of slaves the Sarkee was obliged to bring with him the halt, the
blind, the maimed, and the aged, stooping to the earth with age. Besides
human beings, the Sarkee captured eight hundred and thirty bullocks, and
flocks of sheep; seven hundred bullocks he gave to the troops and
volunteers, and one hundred and thirty have been reserved for himself.
Four men were killed, and one hundred horses, belonging to Zinder; but
the enemy are said to have lost a good number. All the villages made
resistance but one, where the poor people were busy cooking their
suppers; when the Sarkee and his famished crew rushed upon them, seized
them, and carried them into captivity. This, at any rate, is the report;
but, according to others, the results of the expedition are much less
important.

All the country razzied is nominally subject to the Sheikh of Bornou, so
that this Sarkee of Zinder has been pillaging the Bornou territories,
and carrying off their inhabitants, who are subjects of the Sheikh, to
raise money to pay his debts. A certain enmity exists, it is said,
between Konchai and Zinder, which formerly was subject to the province
of Konchai.

According to one authority, the booty of the razzia is greatly reduced,
even to more than half of what was reported. The share of the Sarkee is
four hundred slaves, and one hundred and twenty slaves he gave to his
troops. Seven places were attacked, but the people had news of the
movements of the Sarkee, and were prepared to receive him: they shot
their arrows through their stockades, thick and fast, upon the Sarkee
and his people, and then retired to the rocks and behind the trees,
which are abundant. Only one country was fairly razzied. Also but few
beasts were taken, the people having secured all their cattle and flocks
beforehand. The Sarkee got about one