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tions, and thought that emetics were the best remedies 
in the world. 
Besides this man and Haj A'hmed, the man with 
whom I had most frequent intercourse during my 
stay in this country was Sliman, a travelling Arab 
sherif, as he called himself, but in reality a Fellah, a 
native of Egypt, at present settled in Mekka, who had 
roved about a great deal, was very polite in his 
manners, and, although not a very learned man, pos- 
sessed a certain degree of general information, espe- 
cially with regard to the countries of Waday and Dar 
Fur (where he had made a longer stay), and, having 
been assisted on his journey to Constantinople by Mr. 
Brand, Her Majesty's consul at Smyrna, had a certain 
degree of attachment to Europeans. 
But the greatest amount of information which I 
obtained, principally with regard to the country of 
Waday, proceeded from a young native of that country 
of the name of rbrahfm (the faki Fbrahfm), of the 
tribe of the A'bu-Sharib, with whom I passed several 
hours every day very pleasantly and usefully, and 
who attached himself so much to my person that I 
would freely have taken him with me to Sokoto, 
where he wanted to go in order to improve his learn- 
ing under the tuition of the Fiilbe. 
My relations with the lieutenant-governor were 
rather cool ; and after he had given me a first treat, he 
left me for some days without any sign of hospitality, 
except that he once sent me a quantity of the fruit of 
the bito tree or hajilfj, which I returned. He was a 
