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and no interruption was offered to the men engaged 

 in driving out the camels to forage for the remainder 

 of the day. Opportunities of peaceful advances 

 being made having thus offered, I soon found 

 Ohmed Mahomed and Ebin Izaak, attended by 

 Garahmee, retire beneath some mimosa trees, 

 where they were joined first, by several Muditu 

 women, who had followed their male friends to the 

 rencontre, and who, it seems, came down here to 

 invite our leaders to a conference, but as Ohmed 

 Mahomed himself had a blood feud with some of 

 the tribe unsettled, he was obliged to retire, leav- 

 ing the management of the business to the politic 

 Garahmee and the young and not very talented 

 Ebin Izaak. The former, however, was quite suffi- 

 cient for the purposes required ; but whilst I was 

 glad of our being obliged to remain now for the 

 other Kafilah from the Salt Lake, I could not help 

 regretting the importance which circumstances 

 seemed to be conferring upon Garahmee, who, 

 I was convinced, was greatly mistrusted by Ohmed 

 Mahomed, and who, if he had obtained the power 

 of controlling our movements, would, in the end, 

 have certainly occasioned the loss of the stores, 

 and put an end to all my expectations of discoveries 

 in Africa in a very summary and disagreeable 

 manner. 



Two bags of rice, all my private stock of dates, and 

 three pieces, of blue Surat calico, were our compro- 

 mise for a safe passage through the country of this 



