Identifier: travelsdiscoveri02bart (find matches)
Title: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Barth, Heinrich, 1821-1865
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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y of two dollars,and a present of twenty dollars. Then came Mohammed benAhmed, who, though a person of very indifferent abilities, andat the same time very self-conceited on account of his Islam,was yet valued by me for his honesty, while he, on his part,having been left by his countrymen and co-religionists in a verydestitute situation, became attached to myself. I had two more freemen in my service, one a brother of Mo-hammed el Gatrdni, who was only to accompany me as far asZinder; the other an Arab from the borders of Egypt, andcalled Sliman el Ferjdni, a fine, strong man, who had once abbega and dyrregu. 321 formed part of the band of the Welad Sliman in Kanem, andwho might have been of great service to me from his know-ledge of the use of fire-arms and his bodily strength ; but hewas not to be trusted, and deserted me in a rather shamefulmanner a little beyond Katsena. Besides these freemen, I had in my service two liberatedslaves, Dyrregu, a Hausa boy, and Abbega, a Marghi lad,
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Abbega. Dyrregu. who had been set free by the late Mr. Overweg; the sameyoung lads whom, on my return to Europe, I brought to thiscountry, where they promised to lay in a store of knowledge, 322 ali; el ageren. and who, on the whole, have been extremely useful to me, al-though Abbega not unfrequently found some other objectmore interesting than my camels, which were intrusted to hiscare, and which, in consequence, he lost repeatedly. In addition to these servants, I had attached to my personanother man as a sort of broker, and who was to serve as amediator between me and the natives; this was the MejebriAli el Ageren, a native of Jalo, the small commercial placenear Aiijila, which has recently been visited and described bythe Abbe Hamilton. He had travelled for many years inNegroland, and had traversed in various directions the regioninclosed between Sdkoto, Kano, Bauchi, Zariya, and Gonja.But for the present, on my outset from Bdrnu, I had not madeany fixed arrangements with this man

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