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and we found it necessary to sell to the Arab and Kanuri 

 merchants all that was left of our more costly trade goods, 



AN ARAB WOMAN 



such as silk, fine cloth and scent ; for before long we should 

 be travelHng through a country of bush-people who would not 

 appreciate such expensive luxuries. When this was done 

 we found ourselves with enough goods and provisions to last 

 for six months. To these we added a fresh stock of live poul- 

 try as the Sultan of Gulfei's handsome present was now 

 exhausted, all except one cock. He was a brave-looking 



