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as December, 1851, afforded me a great deal of plea- 
sure. Partly in order to fulfil a vow which I had 
made, and partly to obtain a more secure hold upon 
the friendly dispositions of the natives, I made a pre- 
sent to the inhabitants of the capital, on Christmas- 
day, of fourteen oxen, not forgetting either rich or 
poor, blind or fokara, nor even the Arab strangers. 
My residence in the town became infinitely more 
cheerful, in consequence of the arrival of Mr. Yogel, 
on the 29th December, when I spent a period of twenty 
days most pleasantly in the company of this enter- 
prising and courageous young traveller, who, with sur- 
prising facility, accustomed himself to all the relations 
of this strange life. But while borne away by the 
impulse of his own enthusiasm, and giving up all 
pretensions to the comforts of life, he unfortunately 
committed the mistake of expecting that his com- 
panions, recently arrived from Europe, and whose 
ideas were less elevated, should do the same, and 
this had given rise to a lamentable quarrel, which 
frustrated in a great measure the intentions of the 
Government who had sent out the party. Exchang- 
ing opinions with regard to countries which we had 
both of us traversed, and planning schemes as to 
the future course which Mr. Vogel was to pursue, 
and especially as to the next journey which he was 
to undertake towards Yakoba and A'damawa, we 
passed our time very agreeably. I communicated 
to him, as far as it was possible in so short a space of 
time, all the information which I had collected during 
