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ANECDOTES — VISIT TO EN-NOOR. 
claimed : " If lie do the same thing again, and 
do not follow the way of us Muslims, I will 
send an arrow through him." 
During the night of the second affair, Oud-el- 
Khair used this nice argument : " What will be 
gained if you do kill these three Christians ? There 
are plenty more in the English country ! " Many 
topics of a similar character were resorted to. 
Some of the Tanelkums leave us to-day. We 
have to pay them two reals a camel-load for bring- 
ing us from Tintaghoda to Tintalous. We have 
hired of them eleven camels in all. The original 
agreement was to carry our goods and baggage 
from Mourzuk to Tintaghoda, for which we paid 
dear. 
Having heard that the great En-Noor would 
receive me to-day or to-morrow, as I pleased, I de- 
termined at once to see him, and made ready the 
presents for his highness. We had some difficulty 
in making the selection. At length we amassed a 
variety of things, of the value of one hundred and 
twenty-tvv^o mahboubs prime cost, or about fifty-two 
reals value here. 
At the Asar (or 3 p.m.) I dressed, and went off 
to see the great man, accompanied by my German 
colleagues. On entering the village, I at once re- 
cognised in a long mud-shed the Sultan's palace. 
It seemed, indeed, a palace compared with the circular 
hasheesh huts by which it was surrounded ; and in 
that direction, accordingly, we bent our steps. On 
