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again ray friend the old chief of Tintellust, who, 
however, in consequence of the measures adopted 
towards him by Mr. Richardson, behaved rather 
coolly towards me, although I did not fail to make 
him a small present. 
Being most anxious to complete my scientific labours 
and researches in regard to Bornu, and to send home 
as much of my journal as possible, in order not to 
expose it to any risk, I staid most of the time in my 
quarters, which I had comfortably fitted up with a good 
supply of " siggedl " or coarse reed mats, taking only 
now and then, in the afternoon, a ride on horseback 
either round the town or into the large well- wooded 
valley which stretches along from N.W. to S.E., at 
some distance from the town, to the N.E. Once I 
took a longer ride, to a village about eight miles 
S.S.E., situated on an eminence with a vale at its 
foot, fringed with diim palms and rich in saltpetre. 
On the 20th of January, 1853, 1 received from the 
hands of the Arab Mohammed el 'Akertit, whom I 
have had occasion to mention previously*, a valuable 
consignment, consisting of 1000 dollars in specie f, 
which were packed very cleverly in two boxes of 
sugar, so that scarcely anybody became aware that 
I had received money, and the messenger seemed 
* See Yol. I. p. 185. 
f Unfortunately they were not all Spanish or Austrian dollars ; 
but there were among the number forty pieces of five francs, and 
more than one hundred Turkish mejidiye. 
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