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nicely made fedeenah, which he pressed upon my 

 acceptance. His civility, and the remembrance 

 of what was due to him for his attention to Lieut. 

 Barker, induced me to add to my previous present 

 two more dollars, making altogether five, the 

 number I had originally intended to give him, but 

 which I had kept back in the first instance from 

 his son, because of certain misgivings as to his 

 identity, that even Ebin Izaak's protestations had 

 failed to remove entirely. 



Before Ohmecl Medina and I came up again with 

 the Kafilah, we found it already halted at a place 

 called Sakeitaban, not much unlike the scene of our 

 previous halt, and but little more than three miles 

 distant from it. The camels were not unloaded, 

 but appeared to be awaiting the decision of a calahm 

 that was going on under a large tree, both the Ta- 

 jourah people and the ITy Soumaulee taking part in 

 the debate. Ohmed Medina joined them immedi- 

 ately, whilst I sat down until a signal from him 

 intimated that our stay was determined upon. The 

 assembly broke up, several of the parties going to 

 their camels, and commencing to unload them. I 

 now heard that the escort had insisted upon the 

 Kafilah waiting for the one, belonging to their 

 people, we had been expecting for the last four 

 days, and from which fresh messengers had arrived 

 who affirmed that it would be up in a few hours, 

 which, much to my surprise, was really the case. 

 Ebin Izaak came to my hut very soon after the 



