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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XLI. 
appointed in our expectations of penetrating further 
eastward, prepared for our return -journey, and I 
bought a small skin of tolerable dates for half a tiir- 
kedi ; while to 'Abd- Allah, who had been our mediator 
with the chief, I made a present of a jerid, in order 
not to remain his debtor. 
All this time I felt very unwell, which I attribute 
principally to the great changes of atmosphere, the 
nights being cool and the days very warm. 
Friday Though we were determined to return to 
October 3ist. J£ u k awaj we had yet once more to go east- 
ward. The Arabs removed their encampment to 
Arnanko, the hollow which we passed on our way 
from Burka-dnisso to Yegil. There had been a 
great deal of uncertainty and dispute amongst them 
with reference to the place which they were to choose 
for their encampment ; but though, on the following 
day, very unfavourable news was brought with regard 
to the security of the road to B6rnu, the departure 
of the caravan nevertheless remained fixed for the 
2nd November ; for in the morning one of the Welad 
Sliman arrived from Kukawa, accompanied by two 
B6rnu horsemen, bringing letters from the vizier, 
requesting the Arabs, in the most urgent terms, to re- 
move their encampment without delay to Keskawa, on 
the shore of the lake, whither he would not fail to send 
the whole remainder of their tribe who at that time 
were residing in Kukawa ; for he had positive news, 
he assured them, that the Tawarek were meditating 
another expedition against them on a large scale. 
