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An immense amount of news had to be exchanged between my men and those of Ibrahim. They had quite given us up for lost, until they heard that we were at Shooa Moru. A report had reached them that my wife was dead, and that I had died a few days later. A great amount of kissing and embracing took place, Arab fashion, between the two parties; and they all came to kiss my hand and that of my wife, with the exclamation, that &#8220;By Allah, no woman in the world had a heart so tough as to dare to face what she had gone through.&#8221; &#8220;El hamd el Illah! 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