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against the Turkish government was a popular 
movement ; I was obliged therefore to leave it to 
circumstances to decide how I should make my 
way out of these difficulties. The Basha for some 
time thought that the only safe course for me to 
pursue would be to turn my steps towards Ben- 
Ghazi, in order to avoid the revolted district alto- 
gether. But such a plan seemed very objectionable, 
as well on account of the greater distance and expense 
of this road, as with regard to the disposition of the 
Arabs of that region, who, if the revolution should 
prove successful, would certainly not lose a moment 
in following the example of their brethren. 
I left the town of Miirzuk in the afternoon 
and encamped in the plantation, and the next '^"^^ 
day moved on a short distance towards Sheggwa, where 
Mr. Warrington took leave of me. Halting then for 
the greater part of the following day near the village 
of Delem, and making a good stretch in the evening 
and the early part of the morning, we reached Gho- 
dwa, with its pretty plantation and its many remains 
of former well-being. Starting again in the afternoon, 
and making a long stretch during the night, we 
encamped in the evening of the following day at the 
border of the plantation of Sebha, some twenty years 
ago the residence of the chief of the Weldd Sliman. 
Here we staid the following day in order to obtain 
some rest. The heat all this time was very consider- 
able, and the thermometer at two o'clock in the after- 
noon, on an average, indicated from 110° to 112°. 
