GHAP. IX.] 
MARAUDING EXPEDITION. 
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various patterns, with red ochre and white pipe-clay; 
their heads adorned with very tasteful ornaments of 
cowrie-shells, surmounted by plumes of ostrich-feathers, 
which drooped over the back of the neck. After the 
dance, the old chief addressed them in a long and 
vehement speech; he was followed by several other 
speakers, all of whom were remarkably fluent, and the 
resolution of the meeting was declared “ that the 
nogaras were to be beaten,- and men collected to accom¬ 
pany the Turks on a razzia in the Madi country.” 
Ibrahim started with 120 armed men and a mass of 
Obbo people on the marauding expedition. 
On the following day Katchiba came to see us r 
bringing a present of flour. I gave him a tin plate, a 
wooden spoon, the last of the tea-cups, and a tinsel 
paper of mother-of-pearl shirt buttons, which took his 
fancy so immensely, that my wife was begged to 
suspend it from his neck like a medal. He was really 
a very good old fellow—by far the best I have seen in 
Africa. He was very suspicious of the Turks, who, he 
said, would ultimately ruin him, as, by attacking the 
Madi tribe, they would become his enemies, and invade 
Obbo when the Turks should leave. Cattle were of 
very little use in his country, as the flies would kill 
them ; he had tried all his magic art, but it was of no 
avail against the flies ; my donkeys would all assuredly 
