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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LVI. 
I had purposely kept till the last, he gave vent to 
his feelings in the most undisguised manner, and, 
pressing my hands repeatedly, he said, " nagode, na- 
gode, barka, 'Abd el Kerim, barka " — "I thank you, 
God bless you, 'Abd el Kerim, God bless you-" He 
had evidently never before seen anything like these 
richly-mounted pistols, which had been selected in 
Tripoli by the connoisseur eyes of Mr. Warrington, 
and surveyed the present on all sides. It was to 
these very pistols that I was in a great measure 
indebted for the friendly disposition of this prince, 
while the unscrupulous governor of Katsena, who 
had heard some report about them, advised me by all 
means to sell them to himself, as his liege lord would 
not only not value them at all, but would even be 
afraid of them. 
Soon after I had returned to my tent, the glial a- 
dima arrived, bringing me from his master 100,000 
kurdi, to defray the expenses of my household during 
his absence ; and I had afterwards the more reason 
to feel grateful for this kind attention, although the 
sum did not exceed forty Spanish dollars, as I became 
aware, during my stay in Wurno, how difficult it 
would have been for me to have changed my dollars 
into kurdi. I then satisfied my friend Alhattu the 
younger brother of the ghaladfma, whose behaviour 
certainly was far from disinterested, but who, never- 
theless, had not proved quite useless to me. 
Although we were here in the camp outside, 
and the people busy with their approaching depar- 
