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followed me to Hofrat el Nahas. I continued the 

 letter ; but when I came to the trophy Tibsherani Eff. 

 proposed to secure, I lay back and screeched and 

 shrieked with mirth. I thought to myself, as turned 

 out to be the case, nothing can really be very wrong 

 if I can laugh like this. 



I sent back word to throw away the ivory if it was 

 found necessary to carry the man, but dead or alive, 

 not to mutilate him. 



