Finally, If I Can Believe The Innumerable Reports Of The People, Both At Tajoorah And Zalaya, Neither I Myself Nor My Servants Would Ever Have Passed Through The Kingdom Of Hurrur.

The jealousy of the prince against foreigners is so great that, although he would not injure them within the limits of his own dominions, he would cause them to waylaid and murdered on the road."

FOOTNOTES

[1] Thus in the original. It may be a mistake, for Captain Barker is, I am informed, a proficient in conversational Arabic.

[2] This chief was the Emir Abubakr, father of Ahmed: the latter was ruling when I entered Harar in 1855.

[3] As the youth gave perfect satisfaction, he received, besides the ten dollars, a Tobe and a European saddle, "to which he had taken a great fancy."

[4] In these wild countries every bit of paper written over is considered to be a talisman or charm.

[5] A sergeant, a corporal, and a Portuguese cook belonging to Captain Harris's mission were treacherously slain near Tajoorah at night. The murderers were Hamid Saborayto, and Mohammed Saborayto, two Dankalis of the Ad All clan. In 1842 they seem to have tried a _ruse de guerre_ upon M. Rochet, and received from him only too mild a chastisement. The ruffians still live at Juddah (Jubbah ?) near Ambabo.

*** END OF FIRST FOOTSTEPS IN EAST AFRICA by Richard F. Burton ***

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