CW. LX1X. LETTER AND NEWS FROM EUROPE. 501 
sold for 3750, equal at that time to one and a half 
" ras " of salt, rose to the exorbitant price of 6000 
shells. 
In the evening of the 7th, a slave suddenly arrived 
with the news that a letter had reached my address 
from the north. He was followed a short time after- 
wards by Mohammed el 'Afsh, who brought me the 
parcel, in question, which, however, had been opened. 
The letter was from Mr. Charles Dickson, Her 
Majesty's Vice-Consul in Ghadames, dated June 
18th, and enclosing, besides some recommendations 
to native merchants, a number of " Galignani," 
which informed me of the first movements of the 
Russians on the Danube. The Ghadamsiye people, 
who were the bearers of the letter, had already spread 
the news of a dreadful battle having been fought 
between the Turks and the Russians, in which 30,000 
of the latter had been slain, and 40,000 made 
prisoners. 
The following day A'wab, who himself had arrived 
with fifty horsemen, was joined by his cousin Fan- 
daghumme with fifty more. This was very fortunate, 
for, about dhohor, the Fulbe held a conference, or 
" kendegay," in the Gengere-ber, or Jama el Kebfra, 
where Hamed Weled Faamme, the malignant and 
hostile kadhi, made a violent speech before the as- 
sembly, exhorting the people to go immediately 
and carry out the order of their liege lord the 
Sheikho A'hmedu, even if they were to fight con- 
jointly against El Bakay, A'wab, and the emir 
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