Chap. XL. A JEWISH ADVENTURER. 
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curious specimen of a Jewish adventurer. He was by 
birth a Tripolitan, but had been obliged to leave his 
native home on account of a murder which he had 
committed. He then betook himself to the tribe of the 
Welad Sliman, exchanging his Jewish creed for that 
of Mohammed, and obtained protection. When he 
had gained a good deal of property as a silversmith, 
his new companions stripped him of his treasures : he 
then for a time separated from them, and in company 
with two other renegade Jews, Musa and Ibrahim, 
made a journey to Negroland — a memorable event, as 
they were the first of their nation who trod this 
road. On his receiving news of the prosperity of 
the Welad Sliman in Kanem, he once more joined 
them, and became a freebooter. He was a very good 
horseman; but that was all, his horsemanship but 
badly supplying his want of courage. However he 
was useful to us in many respects, although we had 
to take care that the people did not confound us with 
these Jewish adventurers. 
I began this day my little vocabulary of the Tebu 
language, or rather the " m6di Teda," and provi- 
sionally that dialect of this language which is spoken 
by the inhabitants of Biirgu, and which varies con- 
siderably from the language as it is spoken by the 
inhabitants of Bilma and in the South of Fezzan. 
Already at that early period I became aware that this 
language is nearly related to the Kanuri, while it has 
scarcely any link whatever which externally con- 
nects it with the Berber language. 
