PRESENTS FOR MARADEE. 
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16th. — Barth has picked up a good many words 
in Aghadez, mostly correct. 
17th. — It was colder this morning, although 
yesterday was very pleasant. Thermometer at sun- 
rise, 41°. 
It is expected that we shall still remain here 
thirty days, which time, if divided half between 
Haussa and half between Bornouee, will help me on 
in these languages, the principal of the interior of 
Africa. Mohammed Tunisee is now the servant 
of Barth alone. Overweg has given him up. 
Yesterday morning I gave Overweg the presents 
for the Sultan of Maradee, to whom he intends to go 
on a mission, in the same way as Barth went to 
Aghadez. The presents consist of a fine burnouse, 
a fine shasheeah (five mahboubs), two pieces of 
coloured cotton cloth, two heads of white sugar, 
knives, scissors, cinnamon, looking-glasses, beads, &c. 
I hope he will not return without bringing back the 
treaty signed. He is also to make some arrange- 
ment for the establishment of the missionaries in 
Maradee. 
To-day we had prayers in Overweg's tent. I 
read several short prayers from the Church of 
England prayer-book, and also the Gospel and 
Epistle for the Sunday. 
18th. — Yesterday evening it was cloudy, and 
the moon had, for several hours, an immense ellip- 
tical ring round it — a common phenomenon in the 
northern Sahara. 
