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yet seen the enormously fat women that Mr. Gagliuffi 
described. This, of course, would always be difficult 
for us, except in our capacities as physicians. Dr. 
Overweg has the best chance of this piece of good 
luck. 
bth. — We are much troubled with a nephew of 
En-Noor, the same that acted as the courier from 
Seloufeeat to Tintalous. We gave him a white 
burnouse, and he is worrying Yusuf to let him have 
a finer and better one. This individual has given 
ns more trouble than anything else in Tintalous. 
Little things here, as elsewhere, prove more an- 
noying than great things. To set matters straight, 
we have offered him a better burnouse, but he is not 
yet content. 
The Tanelkums are also very troublesome. I 
always saw that we must beware of them, for they 
will never let us rest, if they can help it, whilst they 
are with us. Beg, beg, beg ; this alone describes 
their conduct towards us. 
All the people we have had about us seem to 
have considered us their lawful prey, and seek to 
gain their ends, if not by violence, at least by con- 
tinual importunities : still it muse be acknowledged 
that the Tanelkums rendered us considerable ser- 
vice on the road. But, even without this claim, they 
would, no doubt, have still pursued the same system 
of eternal begging. 
This day and yesterday we had thunder, light- 
