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He then went with me over my little Tebu vocabu- 
lary, and corrected some slight mistakes. He was 
quite a sociable man; but Overweg, as well as I, 
doubted much whether he could be trusted. 
Having consulted what course to take, we went to 
the sheikh and asked him whether he really thought 
Halluf would be able to take us with any degree of 
safety to Karkd. He did not hesitate to declare that 
Halluf was unable to accomplish what he had boasted 
of, and begged us to have patience till news should 
arrive from Bornu, where he had sent to ask for 
advice with regard to our design of visiting the 
eastern side of the lake, and. respecting his own pro- 
ceedings. We rather imagined that the vizier had 
given him orders, at the same time that he sent us 
out to Kanem, to assist us in carrying out our project 
in every respect ; and we could scarcely hope for any 
favourable result by their asking advice at such a dis- 
tance. We therefore complained to 'Abd- Allah of the 
sheikh's lukewannness ; and presuming that he was not 
content to leave us under the protection of Halluf 
because he expected that the latter would get some 
handsome present from us, we told him that even if 
we were to go with Halluf, we should regard our- 
selves as still under the protection of the sheikh, to 
whom we were entirely indebted for Hallufs acquaint- 
ance, and would make him a valuable present if we 
should not fail in our enterprise. This seemed to take 
effect ; and we received the satisfactory message in the 
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