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Chap. XL. 
sons. Even the general dress of the Arabs settled 
here in Kanem consists of these white tobes and a 
haik made of the same stuff, only the wealthier indivi- 
duals being able to buy a woollen plaid. The dress 
of the females, too, is made of these very tobes, which 
are cut into the regular oblong pieces of which they 
consist, and sewn together lengthwise. 
Tuesday, Being obliged to remain here without the 
October 7th. certain prospect of doing anything worth 
while, we at least thought we had some right to 
the hospitality of our hosts ; and we expressed our 
desire to obtain a little more milk, as we ourselves 
possessed neither cows nor she-camels. Our request 
was complied with. Thus we accustomed ourselves 
entirely to camel's milk, and found it by degrees 
more palatable and wholesome than the milk of cows. 
I attribute the recovery of my strength principally 
to this sort of diet. There was always some milk 
brought into the encampment by the daughters of 
the Beni Hassan ; but this was generally milk in an 
unpleasant intermediate state between sweet and 
sour, and the vessels (the korio, made of the leaves 
of the palm-tree) in which it was carried had usu- 
ally a bad smell, which they communicated to the 
milk. 
As the renegade Jew 'Abd- Allah (el Musulmani) 
was the medium through which all our business with 
the chief was transacted, I made him to-day a present 
of a red sash, and continued to keep him in good hu- 
mour by occasional small presents. This man was a 
