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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. LXXXV. 
CHAP. LXXXV. 
REAL START. SMALL PARTY. 
At length on the 4 th of May, I left the town and 
encamped outside, close in front of the gate. The 
Sheikh had also given me another camel, and a young 
and rather weak horse, which did not seem very fit 
for such a journey, and which in the sequel proved 
rather a burden than otherwise to me. In this spot 
I remained some days, waiting for my fellow-tra- 
veller Kolo, who was still detained in the town, so 
that I did not take leave of the Sheikh until the 
9th of the month, when he received me with great 
kindness, but was by no means backward in begging 
for several articles to be sent to him, especially a 
small cannon, which was rather out of comparison 
with the poor present which he had bestowed upon 
myself. However, he promised me that I should still 
receive another camel from hnn, of which I stood 
greatly in need, although I had made up for one 
which was lost during my stay before the gate of the 
town, through the carelessness of A^bbega, by buying 
a fresh camel at the last moment of my departure. It 
was for this purpose that I took the sum of thirty 
