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inclination to be his guest a second time ; but if I had 
had any foreboding that Mr. Vogel was so near at hand, 
I wouhl gladly have made some stay. 
Having rejoined my camels, I set out, without delay, 
through the forest, taking the lead with my head ser- 
vant, but I had scarcely proceeded three miles when 
I saw advancing towards me a person of strange 
aspect, — a young man of very fair complexion, dressed 
in a tobe like the one I wore myself, and with a white 
turban wound thickly round his head. He was ac- 
companied by two or three blacks, likewise on horse- 
back. One of them I recognised as my servant Madi, 
whom, on setting out from Kiikawa, I had left in the 
house as a guardian. As soon as he saw me, he told 
the young man that I was 'Abd el Kerim, in conse- 
quence of which, Mr. Vogel (for he it was) rushed 
forward, and, taken by surprise as both of us were, 
we gave each other a hearty reception from horse- 
back. As for myself, I had not had the remotest 
idea of meeting him ; and he, on his part, had only 
a short time before received the intelligence of mv 
safe return from the west. Not having the slightest 
notion that I was alive, and judging from its Arab ad- 
dress that the letter which I forwarded to him from 
Kan6 was a letter from some Arab, he had put it by 
without opening it, waiting till he might meet with 
a person who should be able to read it. 
In the midst of this inhospitable forest, we dis- 
mounted and sat down together on the ground ; and 
my camels having arrived, T took out my small bag 
