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serious business than perhaps he anticipates. We 
took leave one of the other with some emotion ; for 
in Central Africa, those travellers who part and take 
divergent routes can scarcely count on all meeting 
together again. 
I also here parted with Amankee, my Haussa 
servant. He had behaved indifferently lately, but 
nevertheless, as he rendered us some service in the 
acquirement of the Haussa languages, and in other 
matters, I made him a present of four dollars for one 
extra time he had remained with us. He had 
been paid his wages at Mourzuk to go with us to 
Zinder, but then we expected to be only three months 
en route. In a moment, just as we were starting, he 
changed his mind, and would go to his home at 
once. This is his character, — levity and instability, 
— otherwise he is a good fellow enough. He is one 
of those Tuaricks who have settled in Haussa and 
forgotten their native tongue. I have been often 
obliged to use harsh language to him, to curb his 
levity. In parting with the servants of the Germans, 
I promised them each a present of six dollars if I 
heard a good report of them on their arrival at 
Kuka. This present is held out as an inducement, 
because it is impossible to tell what may happen, as 
the Germans will nearly always be without any 
special escort. En-Noor, however, sends one of his 
slaves with Overweg to Maradee, and Barth goes 
with the salt-caravan to Kanou. 
I was much disappointed that we made but one 
