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valiant robbers who had killed so many of the enemy, 
while they had lost so few of their own. But this 
story may have been adorned by our friends the 
Welad Sliman, who could not even deny that, besides 
a great deal of other booty from their own camp, which 
the enemy had succeeded in carrying away, the chief 
of the Woghda could pride himself on the red berniis 
which we had given as a present to Sheikh Ghet; 
nay, he could even boast of four horses taken from 
the Arabs. 
Sunday This and the following day the Arabs 
October 26th. W ere all busy in writing, or getting 
letters written, to Kukawa, as a courier was to 
leave. I myself was almost the only person who 
did not get a note ready ; for I could not muster 
sufficient energy to write a letter. Had I been 
strong enough, I should have had sufficient leisure to 
make up the whole journal of my excursion to the 
eastern parts of Kanem ; but I was quite unable, and 
the consequence was, that this part of my diary always 
remained in a very rough state. Sheikh Ghet, who 
thought that we were greatly indebted to him for 
having seen so much of the country, sent for a variety 
of things ; but we were only able to comply with very 
few of his wishes. On our telling him that we were 
not at all satisfied with what we had seen, and that, 
in order not to waste more time, we had the strongest 
wish to return to Kukawa as soon as possible, he 
wanted to persuade us that he himself was to leave 
for the capital of Bornu in five or six days. But 
