58 TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. XXIII. 
dragged back by force from his enterprising march 
upon Fanda, but had twice returned from England 
to those quarters before he fell a victim to his arduous 
exertions. 
I then returned with my old Ghaddmsi friend to 
my lodgings, when Bel-Ghet came soon after us, and 
once more begged my pardon for having called me 
" kafer." 
Afterwards El Wdkhshi brought me a loaf of sugar, 
that I might make a present of it to Bel-Ghet. On 
this occasion he cast his eyes on a small telescope 
which I had bought in Paris for six francs, and 
begged me to give it to him for the loaf of sugar 
which he had just lent me. I complied with his wish. 
Taking the loaf of sugar with me, and the two other 
letters of the sultan of A'gades, as well that addressed 
to the governor of Daura, as that to the governor of 
Kano, I went to Bel-Ghet, and presenting him with 
the sugar as a small token of my acknowledgment for 
the trouble he was taking in my behalf ; I showed 
him the letters as a proof that the sultan of A'gades 
never intended to forward me to his friend the 
governor of Katsena as a sort of " abenchi," or a tit- 
hit for himself, but that he acknowledged entirely 
my liberty of action, and really wished to obtain pro- 
tection for me wherever I might choose to go. Bel- 
Ghet being touched by the compliments I paid him, 
affected to understand now for the first time the real 
circumstances of my case, and promised to lend me 
his assistance if I would bind myself to return to 
