Chap. LXIX. INTERVIEW WITH A'WAB. 497 
them all, and found that the latter especially was a 
very respectable man. My friend had provided for 
any emergency, having sent to the Tademekket, re- 
questing them urgently to come to his assistance ; and, 
in the evening of the 6th of December, A'wab, the 
chief of the Tin-ger-egedesh, arrived with fifty horse, 
and was lodged by El Bakay in the neighbourhood 
of our quarters. 
The next morning the Sheikh sent for me to pay 
my compliments to this chief. I found him a very 
stately person of a proud commanding bearing, clad 
in a jellaba tobe, striped red and white, and orna- 
mented with green silk, his head adorned with a 
high red cap, an article of dress which is very 
rarely seen here, either among the Tawarek or even 
the Arabs. Having saluted him, I explained to him 
the reason of my coming, and for what purpose I 
sought imana; and when he raised an objection on 
account of my creed, because I did not acknowledge 
Mohammed as a prophet, I succeeded in warding off 
his attack, by telling him that they themselves did not 
acknowledge Mohammed as the only prophet, but 
likewise acknowledged Miisa, £ Aisa, and many others ; 
and that, in reality, they seemed to acknowledge in 
a certain degree the superiority of f Aisa, by supposing 
that he was to return at the end of the world ; and 
that thus, while we had a different prophet, but 
adored and worshipped one and the same God, and, 
leaving out of the question a few divergencies in point of 
diet and morals, followed the same religious principles 
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