CnAr. LXXXV. ARRIVAL AT TEJF/rRI. 
443 
US through the date-grove, made a most pleasing im- 
pression, and I could not prevent my people from 
expressing their delight in having successfully accom- 
plished the by no means contemptible feat, of tra- 
versing this desert tract with so small a band, by 
firing a good number of shots. In consequence of 
this demonstration, the whole population of the little 
town came out to salute and congratulate me on 
having traversed this infested desert tract without 
any accident. But that was the only advantage that 
we reaped from having reached a place of settled 
habitation ; and having taken up our encampment on 
the north-western side of the kasr, among the date 
trees, we had the greatest difficulty in procuring 
even the slightest luxury, and I was glad when I was 
at length able to obtain a single fowl and a few 
measures of dates. There was therefore no possibility 
of our staying here and allowing the animals a little 
rest, but we were obliged to push on without delay 
to the village of Madriisa. But I had the greatest 
difficulty in reaching that place in the evening of the 
8th, having lost another camel and one of my horses ; 
and of the animals which remained to me I was 
obliged to abandon in Madriisa another, which I had 
to pay for the hire of a couple of camels to carry my 
luggage to Miirzuk. 
This was the native place of my servant El Gatroni, 
who had served me for nearly five years, (with the 
exception of a year's leave of absence, which I granted 
