THE GREAT SOUTHERN ZAHARA. 113 
Here he felt worn out, and asked for tobacco. 
" If you give me a small piece," he said, " it will 
be gone in a day, and I shall forget you ; but, if 
a large piece, it will last long, and I shall think 
upon you every time I either take snuff or smoke." 
The form of their houses is the same as 
that of the Matchappees, and like them too they 
paint their bodies red, and powder their heads 
with blue sparkling powder. 
The Great Desert has no name, and as it seems 
to resemble the Great Zahara, or desert in North 
Africa, it may with propriety be distinguished 
by the name of The Great Southern Zahara. 
Turreehey does not seem to be suited for a 
Missionary station, from the scarcity of water 
and the small number of inhabitants, and likewise 
from the probability that the whole of the inha- 
bitants will remove back to Patannee on the 
death of Laheisey, an event which cannot be very 
distant in the course of nature ; yet, were a Mis- 
sionary settled at Patannee, he could now and 
then visit Turreehey while the people remain 
there. 
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