Chap. LXXXIV. NEWS FROM MR. VOGEL. 
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fore onward I was made to hope, that I should be 
allowed to proceed on my journey, in the company 
of a Tebu merchant of the name of Kolo. A 
small caravan of Tebu, proceeding to Bilma to fetch 
salt, having gone in advance on the 25th, I went in 
the afternoon of the 28th to the Sheikh, in company 
with Abba A'hmed who, on the whole, was extremely 
useful to me in my endeavours to get off, in order to 
make my final arrangement with K61o. This day 
was certainly the happiest day or the only happy one 
which I passed in this place after the departure of 
Mr. Yogel ; for, in the morning, on returning from 
an excursion to Dawerghii, I found a messenger with 
letters from my companion, one dated from Giijeba, 
the other from Yakoba, wherein he informed me of 
the progress of his journey, and how he had safely 
reached the latter place, which had never before been 
visited by a European. He also informed me that 
he was just about to start for the camp, or sansanne, 
of the governor, who had been waging war for the 
last seven years against a tribe of idolaters whom 
he had sworn to subject. Greatly delighted at the 
prospect which opened to my fellow traveller, whom 
I was to leave behind me, of filling up the blanks 
which I had left in my discoveries, I made the mes- 
senger a handsome present. Being thus considerably 
relieved in mind and full of hopes, I bore with patience 
and resignation some little disagreeable incidents which 
occurred before my final departure, especially the loss 
of two of the camels which I had recently bought. 
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