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There were two letters very rudely cut on one of the stones, and Wyllard, who stooped down beside it, took off his cap when he rose. "There's no doubt that Jake Leslie lies here," he said. Looking at Overweg, he asked, "Your man is sure there was only one white man who buried him?" Overweg spoke to the Kamtchadale, who answered: "There was only one white man.
This, of course, would always be difficult for us, except in our capacities as physicians. Dr. Overweg has the best chance of this piece of good luck. 5th. We are much troubled with a nephew of En-Noor, the same that acted as the courier from Seloufeeat to Tintalous. We gave him a white burnouse, and he is worrying Yusuf to let him have a finer and better one.
People all admire the clock I purchased for the Sultan of Sakkatou, to give him instead of the chronometer. When it strikes the hours, I tell them it speaks various languages, at which they are greatly astonished. Yesterday evening, a shower of bats made their appearance at dusk. 22d. I went with Dr. Overweg to visit the Pilgrims. We had previously examined the head of one of them phrenologically.
He wrote on a strip of paper which he handed to Wyllard. "You will take these, and nothing else. I may add that Smirnoff is stationed at the inlet where the schooner lies." Wyllard thanked him, and then looked him in the eyes. "There is a long journey before us, and you have only my word that I will take nothing but these things." Overweg nodded quietly.
We wrote the maker's name in Arabic, and gave directions to have it well preserved. He inquired after Drs. Barth and Overweg, and seemed to take great interest in our welfare. In the midst of our conversation a lady, one of the Sultan's female relations, came, moved no doubt by curiosity, into the room. She was evidently a fine dame, a person of fashion in this Saharan capital.
"Your man is sure it was only one white man who buried him?" Overweg spoke to the Kamtchadale, who answered him. "There was only one white man," he said. "It seems he went inland afterwards at least a year ago." Then Wyllard turned to Charly, and his face was very grave. "That makes it certain that two of them have died. There was one left, and he may be dead by this time."
On the northern part of the lake, where there are ranges of low sand-hills, immense herds are to be met with. At the village of Maduwari, he made the acquaintance of a chief, Fugo Ali, who treated him with great kindness and continued his friend ever afterwards. It was at his house, a year and a half later, poor Dr Overweg was destined to expire.
It was clear to Wyllard that he was to a large extent in this man's hands already, since he could not reach the inlet without provisions, and Overweg could, if he thought fit, send back a messenger to the Russian authorities. He was one who could think quickly and make a momentous decision, and he realised that if he could not win the man's sympathy there must be open hostility between them.
By the recommendation of the Chevalier Bunsen Dr Barth, who had spent three years travelling through Barbary and the desert tracts to the westward bordering the shores of the Mediterranean, was allowed, accompanied by another German, Dr Overweg, to join the expedition.
Overweg looked up sharply. "Ah," he said, "Smirnoff. A man with an unsavoury name. I have heard of him." "Anyway," Lewson went on, "we killed seals all the open season with that Russian, and I've no fault to find with him.
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