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to distribute among the members of the Sidee 

 Ahbreu tribe, whom I expected to come begging. 

 The first thing Allee the First did, was to steal 

 the said paper, whilst I was busy packing up 

 the box again. This he accomplished by putting 

 his hand and arm between two boxes that formed 

 part of my hut, and reaching from behind me the 

 paper, which he then conveyed away beneath his 

 tobe. I did not know who to charge with the rob- 

 bery, but upon complaining to Ohmed Medina, he 

 made some inquiries about it, which led to the 

 detection of Master Allee, who, on being brought 

 before me, retorted by charging me with having 

 stolen his fedeenah, or wooden pillow. However 

 innocently on my part, such being the actual case, 

 I consented to a compromise. I was to receive 

 back my paper, and Allee again into favour, without 

 prejudice to his boxeish in Shoa, for his falling off 

 in this instance, from the strict path of duty and 

 honesty. It must be told how he came to know, 

 that I had had possession of his fedeenah during 

 the time he had lost it, and had not, as he 

 at first supposed, procured its return to him by 

 magical incantations. Whilst sitting the evening 

 before with the praying party, after their curious 

 ceremony w T as over, I was questioned as to my 

 power over the inhabitants of the nether world. 

 I denied any such power, stating that the spell I 

 employed to dispossess the devil, or Jinn, from the 

 sick camel, was a piece of myrrh, and not the paper 



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