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named messenger from Tamkala ; then Mustafa, and 
Mohammed Daddeb, the latter a native of Timbuktu, 
who were to return from Sokoto, and A'hmed el 
Wadawi, and Haj A'hmed, who were to return from 
Bornu. 
In the evening preceding our departure, our camp 
exhibited a busy scene, as we were engaged in finish- 
ing our preparations for the journey, the Sheikh un- 
dertaking the outfit of one half the messengers and 
I the other ; but the presents, also, which the latter 
destined for the chiefs of Negroland, were delivered 
to me, in order that I might take them under my 
care. He had, besides, the goodness to supply me 
with some native cotton and tobacco, to distribute as 
presents to the Tawarek and Songhay on our road : 
he also gave a dress to each of my companions, I 
doing the same to those among his pupils who had 
been most attached to me. I even felt induced to 
make a present of a very handsome tobe from San- 
sandi, richly ornamented with silk, which I had in- 
tended to take with me as a specimen of that very 
interesting manufacture, to Sidi Mohammed, a son of 
the Sheikh, who had accompanied us, and who, on 
account of our long absence from the town, was 
rather shabbily dressed at the time. 
