404 ARRIVAL OF IVORY FOR THE TURKS, [chap. xv. 
ment with me. My men had returned with a letter 
from Mahommed, stating that he was neither afraid of 
Ibrahim's people nor of Kamrasi, but that as I claimed 
the country, he must retire. Not only had he retired 
with his thwarted allies, but disgusted at the failure of 
his expedition, he had quarrelled with Fowooka, and had 
plundered him of all his cattle, together with a number 
of slaves; this termination of the affair had so de¬ 
lighted Kamrasi that he had ordered general rejoicings: 
he killed a number of oxen, and distributed them among 
his people, and intoxicated half the country with pre¬ 
sents of maroua, or the plantain cider. 
Altogether Mahommed, the vakeel of Debono, had 
behaved well to me in this affair, although rather 
shabbily to his allies :—he sent me six pieces of soap, 
and a few strings of blue beads and jenettos (red glass 
beads) as a proof that he parted with no ill feeling. 
Hardly were the Turks in retreat when Kamrasi 
determined to give the finishing stroke to his enemies. 
He sent great quantities of ivory to the camp, and one 
evening his people laid about twenty tusks at my door, 
begging me to count them. I told him to give the 
ivory to Ibrahim's men, as I required nothing; but that 
should Ibrahim find a large quantity ready for him on 
his return to the country, he would do anything that 
he might desire. 
A few days later, whole lines of porters arrived, 
carrying enormous elephants' tusks to Eddrees the 
vakeel. Early the next morning, Kamrasi's entire 
army arrived laden with provisions, each man carrying 
about 40 lbs. of flour in a package upon his head. The 
Turks' party of ten men joined them, and I heard that 
an attack was meditated upon Fowooka, 
A few days after the expedition had started, the 
Turks and about 1,000 natives returned. Kamrasi 
was overjoyed; they had gained a complete victory, 
having entirely routed Fowooka, and not only captured 
the islands and massacred the greater number of the 
inhabitants, but they had captured all the wives of the 
