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CARAVAN TO ZINDER. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Zinder Caravan — Negress playing '*Boree" — Curious Scene — Objects 
of Barter — Fresh Annoyances — Remarks on our Reception in Aheer 
— En-Noor — Asoudee — Better News — Fresh Extortions — En-Noor 
disappoints us — Europeans taken for Spies — Things in demand at 
Aheer — Exercise — Overweg's Patients — Wild Animals in Aheer — 
KaUouees in dry Weather — Robbing a Prince — Ghaseb and Gha- 
fouley — Aheer Cheese — Mokhlak Bou Yeldee — Our Wealth noised 
abroad — Alarm at Night — A fresh Attack — Said's Gallantry — Dis- 
orderly Protectors — Thirteen Robbers — Amankee — Loss of my Tea 
— Country of Thieves. 
lOth Sept. continued. — Yusuf has been to the town, 
but has come back without any authentic news 
of the departure of the caravans for Zinder. He 
says, however, that En-Noor is better ; and that 
it is reported that the first caravan will go in fif- 
teen or twenty days, and the second and largest, 
with which En-Noor himself talks of setting out, 
about twenty days afterwards. 
I was disturbed this evening from rhy repose on 
the dry sand under the pale moonlight by the most 
unearthly noises, coming from a group of our black 
servants. On getting up to see what it was, I found 
