Chap. LXXXV. MEET MR. WARRINGTON. 
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Having got ready at an early hour, we Saturday, 
proceeded cheerfully through the poor plan- "^"^^ 
tation, scattered thinly over a soil deeply impreg- 
nated with salt, and fired a few shots on ap- 
proaching the comfortable tent of my friend. I 
could not but feel deeply affected when, after so 
long an absence, I again found myself in friendly 
hands, and within the reach of European comforts. 
Having moved on a little in the afternoon to 
a more pleasant spot, we entered Murzuk the fol- 
lowing morning, and were most honourably received 
by a great many of the inhabitants, including an 
officer of the Bashd., who had come out a great dis- 
tance to meet us. 
Thus I had again reached this place, where, under 
ordinary circumstances, all dangers and difficulties 
might be supposed to have ceased. But such was not 
the case at the present time ; for, in consequence of 
the oppression of the Turkish government, a very 
serious revolution had broken out among the more 
independent tribes of the regency of Tripoli ex- 
tending from the Jebel over the whole of Ghurian, 
and spreading farther and farther, cutting off all 
intercourse and making my retreat very difficult. 
The instigator of this revolution was a chief of the 
name of Gh6ma, who, having been made prisoner 
by the Turks many years before, had, through the 
events of the Crimean war, contrived to make 
his escape from confinement in Trebizond. This 
unforeseen circumstance caused me a little longer 
