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smaller leathern dwellings. It was just about sunset ; 
and the open country with its rich mimosas, and with 
the camp on the rising ground, the white sandy soil 
of which was illumined by the last rays of the setting 
sun, presented an interesting spectacle. The younger 
inhabitants of the camp, including Baba Ahmed and 
'Abidfn, two favourite boys of the Sheikh, one five, 
the other four years of age, came out to meet us ; 
and I soon afterwards found myself lodged in an in- 
digenous tent of camel's hair, which was pitched at 
the foot of the hill, belonging to Mohammed el Khalil, 
a relative of the Sheikh, who had come from his 
native home in Tfris, on the shores of the Atlantic, in 
order to share his uncle's blessing. 
In this encampment we passed several days in the 
most quiet and retired manner, when my friend re- 
vealed to me his course of action. It was his inten- 
tion, he said, to bring the old chief Galaijo, from the 
place of his exile in Champagore, back to this part of 
Negroland, which he had formerly ruled, and to 
reinstate him, by the aid of the Tawarek, in the 
government of Hasina with the residence Hamda- 
Allahi, of which he was to deprive the family of 
Lebbo. But even if it was true, as he said, that 
the Fiilbe themselves, as well those settled between 
Fermagha and Giindam, as those inhabiting the 
provinces of Dalla, Dwenza, and Gilgoji, were op- 
posed to the government of Lebbo, such a project 
appeared to me to require a greater share of perse- 
verance and determination than, from all that I had 
