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and that she is willing to the last to cheer the 
gloom of whomsoever will be cheered in return for 
a little tenderness and protection. 
I insert a note upon the money used here : 
The large dollar (douro) .. 7 Tunisian piastres. 
The small dollar 5 Tun. piast. (in Mourzuk). 
The large dollar 3 metagals. 
The small dollar 2 metagals (in Tintalous). 
One metagal ] 000 wadas (in Tintalous). 
One mahboub 7 Tun. piast. (60 paras in Mourzuk 
and Tripoli). 
One metagal 40 draa* (in^heer and Soudan). 
I was engaged in setting down this information, 
when intelligence was brought me that our camels 
had again been carried off. This affront was offered 
us yesterday at noon, during a storm of rain, before 
my visit to the Sultan ; but Yusuf had thought it 
best to keep the matter concealed from me, hoping 
restitution would be made before I heard of it. I 
sent him immediately to lay our case before the 
Sultan. So it seems that we are to be hunted here, 
even, in our repose under the protection of En-Noor ! 
It is impossible to tell how we shall get safely to 
Zinder. Our boat is still at Seloufeeat. Yusuf is 
gone to see En-'Noor. 
Naturally I feel very much annoyed about the 
missing camels. They were stolen, it seems, not only 
in the middle of the day, but at a distance of not 
more than a quarter of a mile from the residence of 
* The draa is an arm of strips of cotton stuff, al^out two inches 
long. 
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