DEPARTURE FROM THE CAMP. 
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CHAPTER XXV. 
Country of el-Drah. — Zawfit. — el-Hamid. — Bounou. — Town of Mim- 
cina.— Camp of Berbers.— Tabelb^t.— The Tawats.— Wells of Yene- 
guedel, of Faratissa, of Bohayara. — Customs of the Berbers. — Wells 
of Goud-Zenaga, of Zenatyia. — Town of el-Yabo. — ^Wells of Chane- 
rou, of Nyela. — Arrival at Tafilet. — Town of Ghourland. — Market. — 
Ressaut, the residence of a Governor under the emperor of Morocco. 
On the 12th of July, we set out at five in the morning, 
after having taken a little camel's milk, which I bought with 
a glass bead from my chaplet. We proceeded slowly to- 
wards the east, over a hard soil, composed of grey sanJ^ 
covered with vegetation, and intersected with deep ravines. 
Aly would not permit me to mount my camel all the morn- 
ing; it was not till towards noon when he mounted himself 
that I could obtain this favour. About two p, m. we halted 
on a very hard sand upon which grew some zizyphus lotus ; 
throughout the day a strong easterly wind incommoded us 
much : at four in the evening it veered to the west. At 
nightfall we were visited by a Moorish priest whose camp was 
in the vicinity of our halting place. As he was proprietor of 
several flocks of sheep, we wished to purchase some mutton 
of him but he refused ; and we gave him some barley-meal 
which he undertook that his wife should dress for our sup- 
pers. He sent it to us at ten o'clock, and had the civility to 
add some milk from his ewes. Out of reserve he declined 
supping with us, but seated himself apart and waited till the 
dish containing our mess was brought to him. 
On the 13th of July, at two in the morning, we con- 
tinued our route E. N. E., and crossed several sand-hills 
covered with dry shrubs. About eight o'clock we passed 
