of materials of any of the languages of Africa. I carefully packed up my
vocabulary for England, and got it ready, with other matters, to send by
the first opportunity.

Dr. Overweg has again visited the belaboured wife this morning, and
reports her to be improving. The Sultan seems now to repent what he has
done, and is endeavouring to obtain forgiveness by kind and courteous
behaviour.

There was a great deal of wind to day, but it did not come in puffs,
endangering our tents. I sometimes wonder, however, how the flimsy huts
of which part of Tintalous is composed are not swept away. They are made
of the dry stalk of that excellent herb bou rekabah, called in Kailouee
_afada_.

_13th._--No news stirring to-day; nothing said of razzias; so much the
better. We are living very quietly here, and the climate agrees with me
extremely well. Some of our people, however, are sick.

_14th._--The mornings continue cold; 65° outside the tent, and a few
degrees higher inside. This fresh weather, no doubt, accounts for my
good health.

According to a Tibboo merchant now here, and going with our caravan, the
people of Wadaï would receive a Christian well, and allow him to visit
their country. He represents Wadaï as a very rocky region, like Aheer,
with two large rivers in it running from south to north--not season
streams, but continual. He says that the people are all blacks, and a
very tall race. They have a language of their own, which is difficult to
learn. Warrah is the capital. The natives drink a great deal of _bouza_,