•200 L-GUIM — GUIGO. 
beside the road, that a few dates might be thrown to them : 
this fruit is scarce and dear in this part of the country ; and 
some of them brought us water in exchange. About three 
o'clock we arrived at L-Guim, a small Moorish village, where 
some cultivation is visible and some forage may be obtained, 
but the general aspect of the country is sterile and dry ; not 
a single tree is to be seen. I supped upon some pieces of 
barley bread, baked a second time, and which I steeped in a 
little water. This bread Sidi-Moula-Sitec had sent me as a 
present, the evening before, by one of his servants. After 
this repast I lay down near a field of maize, making my 
pillow upon a ridge between its furrows. 
At five in the morning of the 10th, we set out again, 
our route lying W. N. W. ; at seven we turned to the north 
through defiles of arid and stony mountains 5 at ten to the 
N. N. W. The landscape, interspersed with lofty eminences, 
has a most dreary appearance ; on some of them only grows 
a quantity of box to the height of about eighteen inches, the 
leaves of which were dry and yellow. In the level parts we 
saw some Arab tents from which at our approach the children 
issued to beg dates. About three p. m. we reached Guigo, 
a small Berber village : its environs are naked, without any 
trace of cultivation, and the wells are so distant, that it is 
not easy to procure water without paying in dates, of which 
I had no more, and was obliged to have recourse to charity 
for a draught ; I applied to several Moors, who all repulsed 
me like a dog, and bade me slake my thirst at the fountain. 
The heat, which had been intense, moderated towards 
evening ; just before our arrival a slight thunder-shower fell, 
which continued for a quarter of an hour, and greatly cooled 
the atmosphere. A sherif, who had long suffered from a bad 
foot, gave me some water and a small cake of wheat and 
aniseed, on condition that I should furnish him with a 
remedy ; I had still a little diachylon left^ and divided it with 
him ; he then opened before me several rags, in which his 
