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CHAP. XXXIX. 
EXPEDITION TO KANEM. 
Having decided upon leaving the town geptember uth> 
in advance of the Arabs, in order to ob- 1851 - 
tain leisure for travelling slowly the first few days, 
and to accustom my feeble frame once more to the 
fatigues of a continual march, after a rest of forty 
days in the town, I ordered my people to get my 
luggage ready in the morning. 
I had plenty of provisions, such as zummfta, dweda, 
or vermicelli, mohamsa, and nakia, a sort of sweet- 
meat made of rice with butter and honey ; two skins 
of each quality. All was stowed away with the little 
luggage I intended taking with me on this adventu- 
rous journey, in two pairs of large leathern bags or 
kewa, which my two camels were to carry. 
When all was ready, I went to the vizier, in 
order to take leave of him and arrange with my 
former servant, Mohammed ben Sad, to whom I owed 
thirty-five dollars. Haj Beshfr, as usual, was very 
kind and amiable ; but as for my former servant, 
having not a single dollar in cash, I was obliged to 
give him a bill upon Fezzan for seventy-five dollars. 
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