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willing to listen to the solicitations of his repentant 
wife, who sincerely wished him to return to bear her 
company. I found him a simple and decent looking 
man, whose manners pleased me the more as he ab- 
stained entirely from begging, and I testified the 
obligation which I bore to his family, by sending him 
an ox for slaughtering, a sheep, and some smaller 
articles. I had also the pleasure of meeting here 
the sherif *Abd e' Rahman, the same man whom we 
had met four years previously in the country of A'lr, 
and who had lately returned from A'damdwa. He 
brought me the latest information of the state of that 
country, and as he was to return again in that di- 
rection, at a later period when I had received fresh 
supplies, I thought it prudent to give him a small 
parcel to deliver to Mr. Yogel wherever he should 
fall in with him, especially a few tiirkedis and some 
sugar, of which he had taken with him only a small 
supply. 
Having hired a guide and protested repeatedly to 
the Sheikh that I could not wait any longer, my 
health having suffered considerably from my five 
years' stay in these countries, I left the town on the 
20th February, and pitched my tent on the high 
ground at Ddrwerghii, just above the pool or swamp, 
round the southern border of which sorghum is cul- 
tivated to a considerable extent, and which in the 
daytime formed the watering-place for numerous 
herds of cattle. During the night it was visited by 
a great number of water fowl. On the whole, I felt 
