A garden-city Capital—“Ikey” square—Autocracy thorough—Circumscribed accommodation and doubled-up quarters—Young administrators—Strict, stern, severe economy—The Governor’s “Palace”—Job-lot furniture—His Excellency’s 1s.-an-hour, Bank-Holiday motor-car—Pooh-Bah Cantonment Magistrate 19 CHAPTER IV ZUNGERU—THE CAPITAL OF THE PROTECTORATE—(_continued_) Native settlement—Rents and Treasury—A model prison—Northern Nigeria Constabulary—Mails paid time-work—Sport at the door—Up-country and Coast natives—Selection of Zungeru—The future Capital 33 CHAPTER V ZUNGERU TO KANO Everybody his own porter—Religion and missions—Divining water—Carriages patchy in parts—Native passengers—In the track of the slave-raider—Engine sustenance—Kaduna Bridge—A tight-rope performance—Close cultivation—“The lazy negro”—Two civilisations—At Kano 43 CHAPTER VI ARRIVAL AT KANO Plans and expectations—Small water-famine—The handy man—Change of quarters—Ants as sauce—Niger Company 57 CHAPTER VII FASHIONS, GOVERNMENT, ADMINISTRATION An Empire builder—The country and population—Hausa tribes—Moslem and Pagan—Sartorial distinctions—Ruling through natives—Election of their own rulers—Lugard’s peaceful persuasion—A modern Earl of Warwick—The genius of Taubman Goldie and Lugard—Native administration—Residents—Taxation—Law Courts 63 CHAPTER VIII KANO PROVINCE AND CITY—BRITISH TRADE PROSPECTS Town and country—Officials and traders—Belgravia and Bermondsey—A housekeeping budget—European stores—Buying and selling—A Syrian in the fold 72 CHAPTER IX A GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER The London and Kano Trading Company—The Captain intervenes—Army, Civil Service, Commerce—Discarding appearances—Contrast of mansions—The pleasure of business—“Traders” and others 80 CHAPTER X KANO CITY The founder—Hunter and prophet, too—The city wall—Warfare and slave hunts—Provocation and defiance to the British—The Emir’s challenge—March on the city—First check—Renewed attempt—Entry—A new ruler 86 CHAPTER XI KANO CITY—(_continued_)