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Updated: June 29, 2025
Kukawa was not so bustling a place as Kano, but thickly inhabited, and on market-day crowded with people. He became acquainted with many visitors to the place, among them a hadji, Ibrahim.
Vogel succumbed to the climate about a year afterwards, on a journey to Adamawa. After his death Macguire was killed on his way home, and Church returned with Dr Barth. While Vogel pursued his journey to Zinda, Barth proceeded on to Kukawa.
His old friend, the Sheikh Omar, who had been reinstated, sent out a body of horsemen to give him an honourable reception on his return to Kukawa. Here he had to remain four months, greatly troubled by financial difficulties, and finding that a considerable portion of his property had been stolen by the rascality of one of his servants. His health, too, was greatly shattered.
Here he received intelligence of the arrival of five Christians, with a train of forty camels, at Kukawa, and had little doubt that it was the expedition under Dr Vogel. On the 14th of October he arrived in Kano, where he found everything prepared for his reception.
The natives again attacked the camp in the evening, but were beaten off. Hearing, however, that a large body of Wadey horsemen were to join their enemies, the Arabs retreated, and the doctor and his friends, finding a caravan on its way to Kukawa, returned with it on the 25th of November.
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