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tans, and soured with the hardships he endured 
in the desert, to which the Arabs were equally ob- 
noxious, but which they were more able to en- 
counter, he gives every circumstance the most ma- 
licious construction. To a Frenchman of fine feel- 
ings, that appearance of insensibility which misery 
produces, assumed the form of deliberate cruelty. 
The general outline of the picture he delineates 
seems to be sufficiently correct, but the minute 
figures are probably in the style of caricature. Like 
a certain painter of the Flemish school, he cannot 
be charged with wilful exaggeration ; but the ran- 
cour of his ulcerated mind darkened the faces of 
his devils, and gave their features a peculiar ex- 
pression of malice. As he traversed some of the 
districts of the desert, at a great distance from the 
shore, his remarks on the manners of the Arabs who 
inhabit the interior are extremely interesting. 
Of the Ouadelim and Labdesseba. — Of the in- 
habitants of the interior regions of Sahara, the 
Ouadelim and Labdesseba, more properly Wolud 
D'Leim, and Wolud Abbusebah, are the most for- 
midable, and often extend their ravages to the very 
gates of Marocco. Their hordes are frequently 
intermingled with those of the Rousege, Rathidi- 
um, Chelus, Tucanois, and Ouadeli tribes, as they 
have no distinct boundaries, and change their ha- 
bitations, as the desert affords pasturage and wa- 
ter. They are tall, handsome, stout and vigorous 
