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divested herself of the ornaments he had enriehed her with, and 
placed them at his feet. He with passionate love embraced her 
for the last time, gave up his child, returned the baubles, and 
stripped himself of a ferda, which he tenderly folded round her, 
and she departed. 
The boy who had served the ill-fated Mussaad belonged also to 
the village of this woman. He, with trifling gifts such as our 
impoverished position alone enabled us to offer him, some time 
previously had bidden us farewell. Judge then our surprise at the 
return of the boy accompanied by his uncle — a chief — and atten- 
dants, who carried a tusk of ivory, which they entreated Petherick 
to accept as a token of their gratitude. 
The route resumed, we approached a range of hills running 
