Chap. XLVII. PALACE OF THE SULTAN. 
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to explain to him the presents, taking extreme delight 
in the articles of English manufacture, including even 
the large darning needles ; for, small and insignificant 
as these articles were, he had never seen their like. 
He even counted the needles one by one, and assigned 
them their respective owners in the harim. The 
principal favour which I had to beg of him was to 
allow me to navigate the river to some distance ; and 
having granted my request, he dismissed me very 
graciously. 
On the next page are ground-plans of the houses 
of the sultan and keghamma. 
Yiisuf, or, as the people of Logon say, Y'suf (this 
is the name of the present sultan), is a tall, stout, 
and well-built man, apparently about forty years 
of age, with large features and a rather melancholy 
expression of countenance, which I attribute to his 
peculiar and precarious political situation, being the 
ruler of a small kingdom placed between two pre- 
dominant neighbours, who harass him incessantly. 
He has been sultan about nineteen years, and was a 
young man at the time of Denhain's visit, when his 
father Sale and his elder brother 1 Abd el Kerim shared 
or rather disputed the government with each other. 
He had two more elder brothers of the names of 
Chiroma and Maru.fi, both of whom died before him. 
Just at or shortly before the beginning of his reign, 
as it would seem, owing to an expedition into the 
country by Daud, one of the war-slaves of the sheikh 
Mohammed el Kanemi, Logon became a tributary 
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