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might attend the " beaten wife." My privileged 
friend went accordingly, and visited at the same 
time all the women of the household. They received 
him in a very friendly manner : some of them proved 
nearly white. 
Yltli. — This day I finished my Kailouee voca- 
bulary, which contains about a thousand words. I 
have never yet collected so large a quantity of ma- 
terials of any of the languages of Africa. I carefully 
packed up my vocabulary for England, and got it 
ready, with other matters, to send by the first 
opportunity. 
Dr. Overweg has again visited the belaboured 
wife this morning, and reports her to be improving. 
The Sultan seems now to repent what he has done, 
and is endeavouring to obtain forgiveness by kind 
and courteous behaviour. 
There was a great deal of wind to day, but it did 
not come in puffs, endangering our tents. I some- 
times wonder, however, how the flimsy huts of which 
part of Tintalous is composed are not swept away. 
They are made of the dry stalk of that excellent 
herb bou rekabah, called in Kailouee afada. 
13if/i. — No news stirring to-day; nothing said of 
razzias : so much the better. We are living very 
quietly here, and the climate agrees with me ex- 
tremely well. Some of our people, however, are 
sick. 
14th. — The mornings continue cold : 65° out- 
side the tent, and a few degrees higher inside. This 
