CAILLIEAND HIS TRAVELS. 473 
eight days' journey from el-Araouan. Here we quenched 
our thirst and proceeded north north west into the 
heart of the desert : here the soil is most barren, composed 
of moving sand and rocks of grey quartz veined with white; 
there is also a little granite. After two months' journey in 
this horrible country, I reached the Tafilet, a small district 
forming part of the empire of Marocco, and passed through 
Fez, Mequinaz, Rabat, and Tangier, where I was received 
by M. Delaporte, Vice-Consul of France, who lavished 
upon me all the assistance of which I stood so much in 
need. I soon after embarked in the king's schooner La 
Legere, which conveyed me to Toulon, where I have been 
twenty-two days in quarantine. I am convalescent and 
without means of support, having exhausted all in an ar- 
duous journey of sixteen months. 
I am, etc. 
Signed A, Caillie. 
After having heard the preceding communications at 
the meeting of the 17th of October, the central committee 
of the Geographical Society decided unanimously, that a 
first pecuniary indemnity should be immediately sent to M. 
Auguste Caillie, and that extracts from these letters should 
be printed in a supplement to the 66th Bulletin. 
