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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LIV. 
well deserving of a present equal to his stipulated 
salary ; but I received no letters on this occasion. 
I had also expected to be able to replace here such 
of my instruments as had been spoiled or broken, by 
new ones; but I was entirely disappointed in this 
respect, and hence, in my further journey, my observa- 
tions regarding elevation and temperature are rather 
defective. 
I then finished my purchases, amounting altogether 
to the value of 775,000 kurdi, of all sorts of articles 
which I expected would be useful on my further pro- 
ceedings, such as red common berniises, white turbans, 
looking-glasses, cloves, razors, chaplets, and a number 
of other things, for which I had at the time the best 
opportunity of purchasing, as all Arab and European 
merchandise, after the arrival of the kaffala, was 
rather cheap. Thus I prepared for my setting out 
for the west; for although I would gladly have 
waited a few days longer, in order to receive the 
other parcel, consisting of a box with English iron- 
ware and 400 dollars, which was on the road for 
me by way of Kukawa, and which, as I have stated 
before, had been entrusted, in Fezzan, to a Tebu 
merchant, it was too essential for the success of my 
enterprise that I should arrive in Katsena before the 
Goberawa set out on a warlike expedition against 
that province, for which they were then preparing on 
a grand scale. It was thus that the parcel above- 
mentioned, which, in conformity with my arrange- 
