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trade, therefore, must thrive here ; and we get the 
credit of it, because the ruffians by whom it is 
curried on speak our language. 
A great fighi called also to-day to explain any 
dreams which I might require the interpretation of, 
bringing with him his Tifsir El-Helam. I told 
him that last night I dreamt I saw " two persons 
fall to the ground upon (from?) the boughs of a 
tree." He searched his book and produced a 
passage, the pith of which was, that anything which 
I undertake will not be accomplished. Very 
agreeable information ! I thought we had had bad 
news enough. The passage made to apply pro- 
phetically to me ran literally as follows : — 
" And whosoever sees (in dreams) a tree fall, 
or any thing fall from it, — then will not accomplish 
itself the thing which is between the man who thus 
dreams." * 
I hired to-day Mohammed Ben Amud Bou 
Saad, at a salary of ten reals of Fezzan a month. 
I have heard another version of the plan and 
cause of the present razzia of the Sultan of Zinder. 
61 Our own correspondents" cannot be more ver- 
satile in finding out rumours than the gossips of 
Zinder. It is now said that the Sultan of Korgum 
wrote to the Sarkee of Zinder, and asked him if he 
should make a razzia on or with Maradee. 
* The unhappy event which soon after this interview occurred, 
no doubt confirmed the belief of the natives in the powers of this 
great fighi. — Ed. 
