Fadasi.

Ave were also obliged to give to tlie authorities of Faraaka before our departure.

During all our stay at Fadasi we did our best to win the sympathy of the inhabitants. Whatever we got from them was paid thrice its real value ; but all our efforts were vain against their obstinacy, and they could not be persuaded that we were not Egyptian envoys sent to establish the preliminaries of the invasion of their country.

March 14th. — Our stay in this village begins to be disagreeable, the noise which the natives make around my tent bewilders and irritates me. I am nervous, and I need calm and quiet to think over my affairs.

I have therefore decided to go and stay outside the village with the people of Gurguro, a spacious place with large trees, where the air is pure enough. There I shall be better able to occupy myself Avith my plans. For this purpose I had my tent carried there, and, to shelter myself from the sun, I determined to surround it with shrubberies and grass. The Gurguros immediately set to work, promising to finish it in a day or two. When this time had elapsed I repaired to my new quarters, in the certainty that everything would be ready, when, to my great surprise, I saw that the work was not yet completed, and that the Gurguros, instead of attending to it were all seated in a group, looking very sad and agitated. Astonished at this sight, I asked them the cause of such a change. " Ya Sidi " (master), they replied ; " misfortune has happened ! " One of the workmen had come to words with another, and in the fury of the quarrel had killed him. Fearing that severity might be used, both the chief and the murderer had tied, and had not been heard of again.

Having inquired carefully into the facts, I was able to ascertain satisfactorily that the case was entirely - Gessi was displeased and irritated because lie could not go on to Kaffa, as he would have attempted to do at all costs, hatl he not had the responsibility of the fate of his companions.