PAHTICULAES OF THE DEATH OF BE. VOGEL. 
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servants to accompany Dr. Vogel on the journey to and from 
Wadai at tlie fixed sum of ten dollars eaeli. 
‘^^The day after he had received the above doeument^ viz., 
January 1st, 1865, poor Vogel departed from Kuka on his un- 
fortunate journey to Wadai, Hadji Dries accompanied him for 
about two hours on the road, and then took leave of him, Vogel 
rode a grey horse that had been given to him by Sheikh Omar, 
Sultan of Burnou j the servants walked, and one camel carried the 
whole of his baggage. About three months afterwards, it became 
known that Vogel had been received, entertained, and treacherously 
murdered at Abusha or Abesta, the residence of Sultan Sherif of 
Wadai, about one day^s journey south of Wara, the capital. This 
statement was shortly afterwards corroborated by two of the servants, 
who, after a narrow escape from a similar fate and subsequent death 
from thirst during their flight from Wadai, had returned to Kuka. 
They told Hadji Dries that their master had been unexpectedly 
fallen on and murdered by the attendant slaves of Sultan Sherif 
because he would not adopt Islamism, and acknowledge that 
Mahomet was God^s prophet. Their two comrades were also 
speared to death for serving a Christian, but they owed their lives 
to the darkness of the night that covered their retreat. They 
avoided all habitable localities during the day-time, and at night 
they watched their opportunity of stealthily obtaining water from 
wells, wherewith to quench their thirst, until they were out of the 
district, and they did not consider themselves safe until their arrival 
in Kanem, 
Hadji Dries did not believe that any of the effects of Vogel 
would have been preserved. He had seen some small bottles of 
medicine and one of quicksilver in the possession of an Arab smith 
originally from Tunis, and then in the employ of Sultan Sherif. 
