CHAPTER XIX.

Rainstorm--Overtures from En-Noor--Another Interview--Aheer Fashions--A great Lady--Hoisting the British Flag--A devoted Slave--Sultan of Asoudee--Attack on a Caravan--Purposed Razzia--Desert News--Buying Wives--A peculiar Salutation--Oasis of Janet--New Razzias--Costume of the Sultan--The Milky Way--Noise at a Wedding--Unquiet Nights--Sickness in the Encampment--A captive Scorpion--Nuptial Festivities--An insolent Haghar--Prejudice about Christians--Movements in Aheer--Bullocks.

NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA.