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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LXIII. 
tities of fresh and sour milk, while a fat sheep was 
slaughtered and prepared for our supper, but without 
any additional food, these people living almost en- 
tirely on meat and milk. 
Of course I had to make a handsome present to my 
new friends, consisting of a fine black tobe, a tiirkedi, 
and a black hardm ; but I doubt very much whether 
my friend El Wal&ti gave them these articles as a pre- 
sent from me, or whether he sold them as his own. 
However, be this as it may, I wanted not only their 
protection, but their assistance too, as my camels were 
so weakened by the continual humidity to which they 
were exposed, that they were not fit to carry my lug- 
gage any further. But besides, as we had to pass the 
seats of these lawless tribes, we had to grope our way, 
as well as possible, from one encampment to the other, 
so that we wanted guides ; and it was therefore ar- 
ranged that, hiring a couple of pack-oxen at this 
place, we should join this tribe the following morning, 
when they would take us on our way to the chief, 
Somki. The mountainous district, in the direction 
of Nuggera, had the following appearance at its ter- 
mination. 
