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very quickly, which showed En-Noor to be a mail 
of business and authority. 
I expected we should have some trouble to 
satisfy thirty-one people. Yusuf, aided by the 
Tanelkums, sorted out about eighty-seven reals' 
worth of goods. This was offered as sufficient, but 
did not content even the chief persons, much less 
the smaller gentlemen. We then added another 
burnouse, and other things, making up about one 
hundred reals. This the chiefs accepted ; but not so 
the little men. They stormed and swore ; and 
some of them even ran to seize our bales of goods. 
However, whatever we had given we should have 
had the same results, and we must expect similar 
quarrels all through Africa until our journey's end. 
I observed, at last, that many took their portions 
and retired, and I felt confident that all would finish 
without violence being done us. 
When I had been in bed two hours, half-sleeping 
and half-waking, I turned round my head, and saw 
my tent full of people. I had not heard them come 
in. They were the Germans, Yusuf, Mohammed 
Tunisee, and other people, They were all busy exa- 
mining the scattered contents of a bale of goods. 
I asked what was the matter, and was told briefly 
that some of the canaille of our escort had carried 
away a bale of Dr. Earth's goods, but that the 
chief had made them restore tlie greater part of the 
spoil. In the first moments I could not help laugh- 
ing. It was certainly comical to be robbed by one's 
