(W.XXVI. TWO SPANISH DOLLARS ! 
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request with the fashionable world in Hausa and 
Bornu. In the evening, we received also corn for 
our horses. 
This was a most fortunate and lucky Saturday 
day for me ; for suddenly, when I least March 15th - 
expected it, I was visited by an Arab from Sokna, of 
the name of Mohammed el Mugharbi, who had just 
arrived with a little caravan of Swakena from Miir- 
zuk, and brought me a considerable number of letters 
from friends in Tripoli, England, and Germany, after 
my having been deprived of news from them for ten 
months. The letters gave me great delight ; but be- 
sides the letters there was something with them 
which touched me more sensibly, by the providential 
way in which it supplied my most urgent wants. 
I was extremely short of cash, and having spent 
almost my whole supply of shells in fitting up 
my quarters, paying my guides, and discharging 
Makhmiid, who had proved quite unfit for ser- 
vice, I had very little left wherewith to provide for 
our wants on our long journey to Kiikawa. How 
surprised and delighted was I, then, on opening 
Mr. GagliunYs letter, at the unexpected appearance 
of two Spanish dollars, which he forwarded to me 
in order to make good an error in my account 
with him. Two Spanish dollars! it was the only 
current money I had at that time; and they were 
certainly more valuable to me than so many hundreds 
of pounds at other times. However, the rascal who 
brought me the letters had also merchandise on the 
