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only the forerunners of the real messenger, Mansur, 
the brother of the governor. This was very pleasant 
news to me ; and although, after this shock of dis- 
appointment, I felt extremely ill and weak, I rose 
from my couch, and went to receive Mansur, when 
he arrived at the door of the hut. He then officially, 
and in a very feeling manner, confirmed all that Mode 
e Abd- Allah i and the sherif Mohammed had said, and 
expressed his deep regret that I was not allowed to 
stay. When he was going, I handed to his servants 
the little present destined for him, which consisted of 
twenty-five dra of striped Manchester, a pair of 
English razors, scissors, a looking-glass, a parcel of 
cloves, a little j&wi, or benzoin, and a small piece of 
camphor. 
Mansur had been gone a little while when I received 
information that the governor had sent me a horse 
and two slaves as a present, with the intimation that 
I might likewise let him have the present which I had 
brought with me for him. But this I refused to do, 
declaring that I could not, under the present circum- 
stances, either accept from him or give him anything, 
not having come as a merchant to barter with him, 
but as the messenger of another powerful sovereign, 
to treat with him on friendly terms. My servant, 
Bu-Sad, who, in the covetousness of his heart, already 
fancied himself in the possession of the two slaves, 
whom he knew well I myself could not accept, but 
whom he thought I would give up to him, went so 
far as to declare that as the present had come from 
