BEGGING PROPENSITIES. 
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CHAPTER X. 
My Barracan — Spontaneous Civility on arrival in Damerghou — 
Ghaseb Stubble — Cactus — Water-Melons — Party of Tuaricks — 
Boban Birni — Huts of Damerghou — Tagelel — Women of the 
Village — Population of the Country — Complaisant Ladies — 
Festivities — Aquatic Birds — Dancing — A Flatterer — A Slave 
Family — A new Reason for Wife-beating — Hazna Dancers — 
Damerghou, common ground — Purchase of Ghaseb — Dethroned 
Sultan — Yusuf — Mohammed Tunisee — Ophthalmia — Part with 
Barth and Overweg — Presents to Servants — Sheikh of Fumta — 
Yakobah Slave — Applications for Medicine — Boban Birni — 
Forest — At length enter Bornou ground — Daazzenai — 
Tuarick Respectabilities — Detachment of the Salt-Caravan. 
Jan. 6th. — We came seven hours. The weather 
is always thick, as for many days past; but the wind 
not so strong, nor the air so cold. We had even 
some drops of rain; and, probably, the rain here is 
not so constant in its fall in summer-time as is gene- 
rally supposed. I took out my last barracan, as 
some precaution against the threatening clouds. 
This barracan excited everybody's attention; every 
one admired it, and asked for it. I was plagued to 
death by the people, and I vowed I would not take 
it out again be the weather what it might. The 
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