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and v/hich, in a rather maliciously witty manner, 
has been called by the Arabs " Dendal Ghaladima " 
("the Promenade of the Minister"). It would form 
a good study for a painter experienced in water 
colours, although it would be impossible to express 
the features in a pencil sketch. 
But not even here were we enabled to grant our- 
selves the slightest repose, only staying long enough 
to take in a sufficient supply of water, and to slaughter 
one of our camels, which was totally unfit to pro- 
ceed. Having made this day about eighteen miles, 
we reached the following day, after a moderate march 
of from nineteen to twenty miles, the southernmost 
solitary date-grove of Fezzan. Here we were so for- 
tunate as to meet a small caravan of Tebu, com- 
prising a few very respectable men, who brought us 
the latest news from Murzuk, where I was glad to 
hear that Mr. Frederick Warrington, the gentleman 
who had so kindly escorted me out of Tripoli more than 
five years previously, was awaiting me, and that the 
very governor who had been appointed to the govern- 
ment of Fezzdn during our first stay there, had a few 
days before again been reinstalled in that office. 
This was an important day in my journey, 
July 6th. leaving performed the most dangerous part 
of this wearisome desert march, I reached Tegerri, or 
Tejerri, the first outlying inhabited place of Fezzdn. 
The village, although very small in itself, with its 
towering walls, the view of which burst suddenly upon 
