Chap. LIII. 
MY SERVANTS. 
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him adhere to his own stipulations. I had unbounded 
control over ray men, because I agreed with them 
that they should not receive any part of their salary 
on the road, but the whole on my successful return 
to Haiisa. 'Abd-Allahi was likewise mounted on 
horseback, but had only a salary of two dollars, and 
a present of twenty dollars. Then came Mohammed 
ben A'hmed, the fellow of whom I have already spoken 
on my journey to Kanem, and who, though a person 
of very indifferent abilities, and at the same time 
very self-conceited on account of his Islam, was yet 
valued by me for his honesty, while he, on his part, 
having been left by his countrymen and co-religion- 
ists in a very destitute situation, became attached to 
myself. 
I had two more freemen in my service, one, a 
brother of Mohammed el Gatroni, who was only to 
accompany me as far as Zmder; the other an Arab 
from the borders of Egypt, and called Sliman el 
Ferjani, a fine, strong man, who had once formed 
part of the band of the Welad Sliman in Kanem, and 
who might have been of great service to me, from 
his knowledge of the use of firearms and his bodily 
strength ; but he was not to be trusted, and deserted 
me in a rather shameful manner a little beyond 
K at sen a. 
Besides these freemen, I had in my service two 
liberated slaves, Dyrregu, a Haiisa boy, and A'bbega, 
a Marghi lad, who had been set free by the late Mr. 
Overweg, — the same young lads whom on my re- 
