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Grerman, as Arabic interpreter and servant ; wages not to exceed 
fifteen dollars a month, and if less it will be more agreeable. 
My servant is a useless brute, and I pay him £5 per month : ho 
has been very saucy, having had eight months’ advance of wages 
in Cairo ; a good thrashing cured his sauce, but I will not keep 
him a minute, if you can kindly procure me a substitute on the 
terms mentioned, and send him to KatarifF, from which place he 
will be directed to me. Will you kindly let him bring the large 
package of carpet, &c., as it will serve as a present to some sJieiJc, 
otherwise the moths will swallow it? I have some very good 
servants ; thus the interpreter will have no actual servant’s 
work to do if he be a superior kind of a fellow, but will merely 
have to superintend everything. 
“ Will you kindly forward the enclosed letters to Mr. Oolqu- 
houn in Cairo or Alexandria? and he will send them to their 
destination. 
“ Grod grant that we may meet in good health somewhere or 
other in this wild land, when I shall be truly glad to see you. 
Has anything been heard of Speke ? If so, please let me know, 
as I am anxious to hear. I made his acquaintance, some years 
ago, on board the ‘ Precursor, ’ on a voyage to England from 
Ceylon, when we dropped him at Aden. 
“ Believe me, 
“ Ever very sincerely yours, 
“ SAMUEL W. BAKER.” 
After having supplied him with the required articles^ and in 
reply to his letter of the .28th November, I strongly urged upon 
him the prudence of giving up his project of travelling south-west 
from the Blue Nile through the Dinka district to the White Nile, 
and coming down the latter river to Khartoum. In lieu of such a 
