Chap. LXIX. PRESENTS TO A'WA'b. 
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mer occasion*, and which are great favourites with 
these people), two tiirkedi, and two black tesilgemfst, 
or shawls, besides another shawl and a handkerchief 
for his messenger, or mallem, who is the confidential 
factotum of every Tarki chief. He was as thankful 
as these barbarians can be, but wished to see some- 
thing marvellous, as characteristic of the industry 
of our country ; but I begged him to have patience, 
till, on some future occasion, some other person 
belonging to our nation should come to pay him a 
visit. 
While I was staying there, a Piillo chief arrived 
from Giindam with two companions, and reproached 
the Sheikh in my presence for having shown so 
much regard for an unbeliever, whose effects at least 
ought to have been delivered up to the chief of 
Hamda- Allahi : but I imposed silence upon him, by 
showing him how little he himself knew of religious 
matters in calling me an unbeliever ; and telling him, 
that if he had really any knowledge of, and faith in, his 
creed, his first duty was to try to convert those of 
his own countrymen who were still idolaters. At the 
same time I told the Tarki chief A'wab, that it seemed 
to me as if they were afraid of the Fulbe, or else 
they would certainly not allow them to molest tra- 
vellers who visited this place with friendly inten- 
tions, while they could not even protect the natives. 
* See Vol. IT. p. 129. 
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