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my coussabe also, when Haggi-Lemedan^ (my guide,) to 
whom the Moors of his acquaintance had given notice of my 
situation, returned at full gallop with his Berber ; and the 
latter made the plunderers restore ail they had stolen from me. 
Soon after this vexatious accident, we reached the market, 
which I found as well supplied as the first time I visited it. 
On the road I had met two mounted Berbers pursuing at full 
speed, with loaded guns, two Arab horsemen, who were gal- 
loping off with the utmost precipitation. When the market was 
over, I went, accompanied by my guide, to Sidi-Habib-Be- 
nani's, who sent me to take a lodging in the loft of the 
mosque ; about ten in the evening he supplied me with a very 
good couscous. 
On the morning of the 30th of July, I seated myself 
modestly on the ground at my host's door, being well aware 
that he would not have the complaisance to send my breakfast 
to this public lodging ; as soon as he perceived me at prayers 
with my chaplet in my hand, he sent me some wheaten gruel 
but without dates. At ten o'clock, I requested a Moor to 
conduct me to the residence of Sidi-Habib-Bacha, at the 
small town of Ressant, two gun-shots north of Boheim. This 
man obligingly complied, and we set out ; but we learned on 
arrival that the Bacha, who was indisposed, would not come 
thither that day, and that he seemed to intend spending it at 
his private house at Sosso, a village situated about a mile and 
a half S. E. of Boheiui. As I expressed a strong desire to 
repair thither, my honest Moor procured a man of the vil- 
lage, in the service of the Bacha, to accompany me to 
the latter. On my arrival I was conducted through a large 
court, tolerably clean, into another and smaller one, at the 
gate of which two sentinels were sitting upon the ground, 
with their muskets resting against a wall. My arrival was 
announced to the Bacha, who gave orders for my being shewn 
in. I found this Arab grandee seated, without ostentation, 
on a mat, upon the ground, under a shed, near the wells. 
