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his servants ; but Lieutenant Barker, on this side 

 of the Hawash, having reason to suspect the 

 designs of his guide, considered it prudent to leave 

 in the night, and put himself under the protection 

 of some of the Dankalli tribes, with whom he had 

 become acquainted on his first journey through 

 their country. This confidence in their good faith 

 was not misplaced; and after a short journey of 

 scarcely three weeks, he arrived safely at Tajourah, 

 with his four Indian followers. On my return to 

 Aden, after my first visit to Tajourah, I had the 

 good fortune to see Lieutenant Barker at the house 

 of Captain Haines for a few minutes ; and he gave 

 me the names of two chiefs, he wished me to reward 

 for their kindness to him during his late journey, 

 one of whom was this Abu Bukeree, and the other 

 one Durtee Ohmed, Chief of the Sidee Ahbreu, 

 living at the lake Murroo, two days' journey 

 farther on. 



Abu Bukeree was an old man, and, rather a 

 curious circumstance for a Bedouin, had a clean 

 tobe upon his shoulders, which, to give me a hint, 

 he told me had been presented to him by Mahomed 

 Allee, when he was coming down from Shoa. He 

 asked after the Kapitan, but without the least idea, 

 I think, of a present being due to him from that 

 gentleman. He also invited me to his house, or 

 wigwam, an incident that, like the fowl brought me 

 by Moosa's wife, was the only instance of the sort I 

 met with whilst in this country. From the novelty 



