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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AFEICA. 
the rains, or you will be overtaken by them, and in onr country 
the rain is heavy. But with regard to your brother (respecting 
whom you stated to be at Bar Wadai), we have heard of him, 
but during the reign of Sultan Sherif ; but if he is the same that 
you allude to, G-od knows ! 
“ ‘ This is all we have to say to you, and God preserve you. 
“ < Written on Monday, the 2%th of 
the months of Ood, Ramadan, one of 
the months of the year 1280 from the 
Hcegira of the most noble Prophet. God “ ‘ In the year of the 
greet him, and peace be unto him. Hegira 1280 .’ 
NOTE TO MS. ON VOOEL AND BEUEMANN, 
PUBLISHED BY DR. PETERMANN. 
“ The information respecting the melancholy fate of Edward Vogel and M. V. 
Benrmann, so kindly conveyed to ns by Mr. Petherick, and gleaned from a trust- 
worthy person of Kuka, corresponds in general, and, indeed, especially so completely 
with the heretofore known data as to dispel all doubts of the lamentable death of 
both of the unfortunate travellers.” 
“ Some hitherto unknown details are now communicated, particularly that Y. Beur- 
mann remained some time unmolested at Mayo on the confines of Wadai, the pre- 
sumed scene of his death ; and it was after he had left that place, in the continuation 
of his journey, that he was attacked and murdered. This new report asserts most 
positively, that Besche or Abeschr, the present residence of the Sultan of Wadai, 
lying south of Wara, is the place where Vogel met his death, just like . . . . 
informant. (See ‘ Geog. Mitt.’ : 1862, page 346), On the other hand, Vogel’s 
servant Mahomed ben Suliman, states Wara, the old residence, to have been that 
locality (see ‘ Geog. Mitt,’ : 1863, page 225), and his having been an eye-witness, 
we must accord preference to his version. 'The man from Kuka could but relate 
what had been said in Burnou,” 
“To Mr. John Petherick, that highly meritorious Briton, for his explorations of 
the Upper Nile countries, we Germans must acknowledge our hearty thanks for 
the interest he has taken in the fate of our unfortunate countrymen, and for the • 
zeal which he manifested in unravelling it. — A. P.” 
“ May mh. 
“^^Dear Sister^ 
I sometimes think that I shall never write another 
letter, I am so weak. I have now been eight days almost helpless ; 
