RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO AND MAGARIA. 
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gold watch by ditto ; a Bramah pen ; a pistol, detonating lock ; 
two gilt chains ; four clasp knives ; a dressing-case complete ; a 
magnifying looking-glass ; two English bridles ; a quantity of me- 
dicines ; two empty trunks; the New Testament in Arabic; that 
part of the Old Testament which was translated ; the Koran in 
Arabic ; Euclid’s Elements in ditto ; Ebn Senna in ditto ; History 
of the Tartars under Tamerlane ; Psalms of David ; several chapters 
of the Bible, with a number of other books in Arabic. To the 
Gadado a smaller collection of the same kind of articles. 
Saturday, 28th. — 1 was visited this morning by Sidi Sheik, 
Bello’s doctor, and one of his secretaries, who said he had a mes- 
sage from the sultan for me, which, on his delivery, certainly sur- 
prised me not a little, though I was cautious not to show him that 
I considered it as any thing but a thing of course. It was this, 
that the sultan had sent him to inform me that, by whatever road 
I might choose to return to England, he would send me, were it 
even by Bornou, if I should prefer that road ; but that I should 
consider well before I decided upon that road, as he had to inform 
me that, when I was here two years ago, the Sheik of Bornou had 
written to him, advising him to put me to death ; as, if the English 
should meet with too great encouragement, they would come into 
Soudan, one after another, until they got strong enough to seize 
on the country, and dispossess him, as they had done with regard 
to India, which they had wrested from the hands of the Maho- 
metans : that Bello, however, had said, in reply, it would be a most 
disgraceful thing in him to cause an unprotected man to be put to 
death, and could only account for such conduct, on the part of the 
Sheik, after he himself had placed me under Bello’s protection, to 
seek a quarrel between him and the Sultan Bello. 
I observed to Sidi Sheik, that it was certainly very extraordi- 
nary to me, that the Sheik El Kanemi should have written in such 
a manner ; as he had ever behaved to me with the greatest kind- 
