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sum, and feeling the weight of the dollars, he went 

 away without even thanking me, such was the 

 hurry of delight with which he sought some retired 

 spot to examine to what extent he had been 

 rewarded so unexpectedly. 



He soon returned profuse in his acknow- 

 ledgments, and bade Allee, who was a great 

 favourite of his, to tell me how much he was 

 my friend, and that if I ever came in that country 

 again, no one of his tribe would molest or injure 

 me, but that they and all English for the future 

 should be brothers. I do not know what he would 

 have done, had I carried out the generous 

 intentions of Lieutenant Barker, who requested me 

 to give him twenty dollars. Such a sudden 

 acquisition of w T ealth, would have turned his 

 brain. 



Abu Bukeree was not undeserving of the money, 

 for the grateful old fellow went to his kraal, and 

 in about an hour he and his son drove to 

 my hut one of the finest bullocks I had yet 

 seen, which he presented to me as a proof of 

 the regard and respect he had, not only for me, 

 but for all the English. Not to be outdone in 

 generosity, and having this evening to purchase 

 some animal of the kind, I insisted upon paying for 

 this ; but instead of three, the usual price paid to 

 Ohmed Mahomed for a bullock, I gave the value 

 of one in Adal, two dollars, which required very 

 little pressing to induce the old man to take. 



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