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ingratitude, and petty robbery, no servant who is a native of Houssa, 
Fezzan, or Bornou, is free from. 
Thursday, 28th. — The Gadado left to-day for Magaria : before 
he went, he told me he should not stay long away ; that if any thing 
unpleasant happened to me during his absence, to send an express 
off to him directly. In the afternoon the sultan left for the Sansan 
or new town, which he is building. He sent, by Sidi Sheik, to 
ask me to go and show him the way to build a house and fortify 
it ; but as I did not believe what he said, I took no notice of the 
message. It afterwards turned out that Sidi Sheik had a relation 
who had lately arrived, who was a builder, and he wanted to in- 
troduce him to the sultan. 
F riday, 29tli. — I applied a large blister to my side, as, from the 
enlargement of the spleen, it gave me great pain, having increased 
to such a size that I was unable to eat, and had little or no rest. 
Sunday, 14th January, 1827. — No news from Magaria. After 
sunset, a messenger with a horse for me arrived from the Gadado 
at Magaria, wishing me to go there. 
Monday, 15th. — Started at sunrise for Magaria; but I was so 
ill on the road that I did not arrive there before 5 P. M. All the 
reports of the enemy being near proved untrue. 
Tuesday, 16th. — Waited on the Gadado and sultan. The latter 
told me, as soon as the reports of the rebels being out were found 
to be true or false, I should go ; that he intended I should go by 
the way of Asbur, and that I should visit the country of Jacoba 
during the interval ; that he should send a Fellata to Tripoli with 
me. I returned in the afternoon, and arrived at Soccatoo a little 
after sunset. 
Wednesday, 17th.— -A small gaffle of Arabs arrived to-day from 
Timbuctoo, one of whom had seen Major Laing, who, he said, had 
lost his hand in an attack which the Tuaricks had made on him 
