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jab. They cultivate jowari (or doora), have numbers 
of goats, but few sheep. "Weekly markets are held by 
this race, at which about 250 camels, laden with cot- 
ton for sale, are seen; also cattle and goats. Each 
camel-load of cotton costs three dollars, and, as there 
are no Europeans to purchase it, all goes into Abys- 
sinia, where it is made into country stuffs, such as 
the damoor. Mr Aipperly expected to receive from 
England a machine for cleaning the cotton. From 
the market it might be carried by camels a few miles 
to Aboo Kharaz, on the Blue Nile, and thence, when 
the Nile is at its height in August, to the Mediter- 
ranean by water. This worthy Swiss interested me 
very much, living, as he did, such a contented and 
happy life with a single missionary companion. Two 
servants (a native Christian and a Mussulman) formed 
their entire establishment — one would not eat a fowl 
or goat killed by the other, but neither had any ob- 
jection to eating them when killed by his master. 
For the last year these two missionaries had together 
only received £43. Mr Aipperly had learned black- 
smiths work, and made friends with the natives by 
assisting to put up their irrigation-wheels, and other 
carpentry. I was struck with the docility and obedi- 
ence of his camel, which he had purchased for fifteen 
dollars in the Galabat market; a single word from 
him made the animal kneel, and there was no rough- 
ness on his part, as with an Indian Surwan, and no 
reluctance shown by the camel. He described the 
wine made from honey as remarkably good. Bees 
abound ; they are kept in trees or houses, and the 
natives do not kill them, but smoke them away from 
the honey. The Dacrooree people pay tribute to both 
