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specific effects upon the seat of some organic 

 disease, I always gladly availed myself of the oppor- 

 tunity of displaying the advantages and power, 

 derivable from the knowledge of the medical pro- 

 perties of natural substances. In fact, I always 

 pleaded to the more intelligent of my companions, 

 that the desire to obtain an increase of knowledge, 

 as an Ahkeem, was the principal reason why I had 

 left my country to expose my health and life in a 

 country like Adal, among a people so barbarous as 

 even the Dankalli acknowledged themselves to be. 



The Kanlah halted at Kuma, and a few camels 

 were already unloaded, when it was determined by 

 Ohmed Medina and Ohmed Mahomed, that we 

 should proceed at once to Murroo, the residence of 

 a tribe called Sidee Ahbreu, to the chief of which, 

 one Durtee Ohmed, I had a kind of introduction 

 from Lieutenant Barker, similar to the one I had 

 to Abu Bukeree. Of this latter chieftain I had lost 

 sight for several days, although his wives and 

 children often visited me, bright with smiles, some- 

 times bringing me little skins of milk, or a large 

 German-sausage-looking affair, consisting of a por- 

 tion of the dried intestine of a cow filled with ghee. 

 The absence of Abu Bukeree was occasioned 

 by the presence of Abu Mahomed, the father of 

 Mahomed Allee, who was still with the Wahama 

 Kafilah which preceded us about two miles, 

 and who would often visit me in our camp. Two 

 suns at a time are allowed to be too many by the 



