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them myself to Zinder, or send my sons witli them. 
They shall be protected on their journey to Bornou 
and Soudan." 
I shall only observe on this, that I do not think 
Sultan En-Noor could have brought us clear through 
the countries of Taghajeet and Tidek. We might 
have paid something less, but we must have paid. 
However, we felt glad on hearing the report of this 
speech, and waited patiently for the evening supper 
of the great man ; but it did not come, to our great 
disappointment. The Tan elk urns said that this 
was a kind of home for them, and that En-Noor 
always sent them a supper on the evening of their 
arrival. When I saw these good people supperless, 
I considered that En-Noor would not give one 
supper without the other, and was not prepared for 
both. 
We felt our case to be rather hard, especially 
the Germans ; for they had nothing of their own to 
eat but dry kuskusou and onions. I was a little 
better off. We could get nothing from the town 
during the day, not even a fowl or eggs, nor even a 
bit of cheese. 
Nevertheless, we had been told that everything 
was abundant in this place. It appears all the 
sheep are at a distance, out to graze ; as for bullocks, 
there are none. Dr. Overweg drew out his bottle 
of port wine, and we three Europeans soon made 
an end of that, and retired for the night in pretty 
good spirits. 
