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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXII. 
I had been so fortunate as to secure for myself, as 
far as that place, the services of Gajere, who was set- 
tled in Tagelel, where he was regarded as A'nnur's 
chief slave, or overseer (" baba-n-bawa "). This man 
I hired, together with a mare of his, for myself, and 
a very fine pack-ox for that part of my luggage which 
my faithful camel, the Bu-Sefi, was unable to carry. 
A'nnur, I must say, behaved excellently towards me 
in this matter; for, having called me and Gajere 
into his presence, he presented his trusty servant, be- 
fore all the people, with a red bernus on my account, 
enjoining him in the strictest terms to see me safe to 
Kan 6. 
And so I separated from our worthy old friend 
with deep and sincere regret. He was a most inter- 
esting specimen of an able politician and a peaceful 
ruler in the midst of wild, lawless hordes ; and I 
must do him the justice of declaring that he behaved, 
on the whole, exceedingly well towards us. I cannot 
avoid expressing the sorrow I afterwards felt on 
account of the step which Mr. Richardson thought 
himself justified in taking as soon as he had passed 
from the hands of A'nnur into those of the autho- 
rities of Bornu, viz., to urge the sheikh of that 
country to claim restitution from the former, not 
only for the value of the things taken from us by the 
bordering tribes of the desert, but even of part of the 
sum which we had paid to A'nnur himself. Such 
conduct, it appeared to me, was not only impolitic, 
but unfair. It was impolitic, because the claim 
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