Chap. XXXI. OVERWEG'S ARRIVAL. 
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was going on, and how my excursion to the lake 
had amused me. Having then taken notice of my 
sprightly horse, the vizier called my servant, and 
expressed his regret, that the horse which they had 
presented to me had not proved good, saying that I 
ought to have informed them, when they would have 
given me a better one. I promised to do so another 
time, and did not forget the warning. 
Mr. Overweg arrived. The way in which Wednesday? 
he was announced to me was so singular Ma ^ 7th - 
as to merit description. It was about an hour before 
noon, and I was busy collecting some interesting in- 
formation from my friend Ibrahim el Futawi about 
Taganet, when suddenly the little Madi arrived. This 
lad, a liberated slave, had been Mr. Richardson's 
servant, and is frequently mentioned in that gentle- 
man's journal. As he had been among those of my 
companion's people who, to my great regret, had left 
Kiikawa the day before I arrived without having 
their claims settled, I was very glad when he came 
back, but could not learn from him how it happened 
that he returned; when, after some chat, he told me, 
incidentally, that the tabib (Mr. Overweg) was also 
come, and was waiting for me in Kalilwa. Of course 
it was the latter who, meeting the lad on the road, 
had brought him back, and had sent him now ex- 
pressly to inform me of his arrival. This dull but 
good-natured lad, who was afterwards severely wounded 
in the service of the mission, is now Mr. Yogel's chief 
servant. 
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