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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chaf. L XVIII. 
east from the town, but this time he kept his promise 
of not staying more than twenty-four hours. It was 
at this encampment that I saw again the last four of 
my camels, which at length, after innumerable delays, 
and with immense expense, had been brought from 
beyond the river, but they were in a miserable condi- 
tion, and furnished another excuse to my friends for 
putting off my departure, the animals being scarcely 
fit to undertake a journey. 
