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the African inarig'old. A lad of his own ag-e attended him. 

 The blood of the despotic sire flowing* in the veins of the 

 heir apparent to the throne of the Matabili, his first step 

 was to deprive Mohanj^com of a clasp-knife that we had 

 given him^ which he immediately hung* about his own neck^ 

 with a look of absolute superiority hardly to be expected 

 from such a youth. 



