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rejoiced to see the advance-guard approaching, and forming his 

 troops quickly, he went out to give them a military welcome. 

 After an inspection of the men. "Baker was annoyed very much 



by the fact that not a single head of cattle had been brought with 

 them ; a quarrel had taken place between Wat-el-Mek and Tayib 

 Agha, the two commanding officers, a Bari village had been 

 burned, and in a battle with the natives twenty-eight of the sol- 



