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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AFRICA. 
everjtliing in his power to oblige me, and proved always an 
honest and very nseful friend. 
‘ (Signed) EDWAED YOdEL, 
s< ^ lean ExjfedUion.'' 
^ The sonssigned has riden this recommendation, and has 
found that all was Mr. Yogel has said is very true, so that also 
he can recommend the Hadji-il-Dries to all his friends who will 
read this verbs. 
^ KuM, SeptemUr ?,rd, 1862 . “ ‘ (Signed) BEEEMANN.’ 
^^Witli tlie permission of Hadji Dries,, I retained the original 
documents,, and in lieu thereof, on the eve of his departure^, 
May 27thj 1864, I gave him copies, and adding a few lines from 
myself in testimony of my high estimation of him, I earnestly 
solicited in his behalf the attention and good services of Her 
Majesty^s Consul at Djedda, or whomsoever he may have occasion 
to apply to for assistance. 
The servants who arrived at Kuka with Abd il Wahad (Dr. 
Vogel), were dismissed from his employ, and returned to Tripoli, 
with the exception of an European, who was called Milad (Corporal 
Maguire) . He was left at Kuka in charge of several boxes and a 
quantity of baggage, with which, after the death of Vogel, he left 
lor Tripoli ; but on the way he was robbed and murdered in the 
desert by the Touarig, Hadji Dries was at Zinder on the de- 
parture of Milad, and at that j)lace some of the stolen property 
was brought to Sheikh Baba, and Hadji Dries recognized a sextant 
and a watch that had belonged to Vogel. Hadji Dries was on 
intimate terms and in daily intercourse with Vogel during his stay 
at Kuka. He sought for and engaged four liberated slaves as 
