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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt:...at hearing again from Europe, but still more satisfactory to me was the general letter of Lord John Kussell, which expressed the warmest interest in my proceedings. The other letters chiefly concerned the sending out of l)r. Vogel and his companions, which opened to me the prospect of finding some European society in B6rnu, if I should succeed in reaching my African head-quarters in safety. But of the expedition to the Tsadda or Benuwe", which had started for its destination some time previously to the date of my receiving these letters, I obtained no intimation by this opportunity j and, indeed, did not obtain the slightest hint of that undertaking, of which I myself was to form a part, till December, when it had already returned to England. I thanked the sheikh for having at length put me in possession of these dispatches, but I repeated at the same time my previous remarks, that if he and his friends wanted to have " imana," or well-established peaceable intercourse with us, security ought first of all to prevail as to our letters, and I was assured that this parcel had been lying in A'zawad for at least two months. But the sheikh excused himself, stating that one of the chief men in that district, probably the chief of the Be'raMsh, had kept them back under the impression that they might contain something prejudicial to his country; an opinion which, of course, could not fail to be confirmed by the proceedings of the French in the southwestern districts bordering upon Algeria. But, altogether, the history of this parcel was marvelous. It had evidently come by way of Bornu; yet there was not a single line from the vizier, who, if all had been right, I felt sure would have written to me; moreover, the outer cover had been taken off, althoug...