"Hey! hey! yaud! yaud!" and then came the sound of a thwack on the backs of the lazy troop he was driving before him.

“Hey, Batty, lad!—far yaud, far yaud!” cried a voice by his side.

The words in italics have been inserted by Mr. Salamé, in order to render the reading more perfect, and are not in the original:-- A literal Translation of a Declaration written in a corrupted Arabic, from the Town of Yaud, in the Interior of Africa.

No one, I presume, will say that there is not a manifest difference between these two translations--between the town called Yaud, in the country of Kossa, and the territory of Hausa, called Ecauree.

This declaration is issued from the town called Yaud, in the county of Kossa.