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MR. LUCAS'S 
is his dread of the perpetual hanifliment which, if he feeks his 
fafety by withdrawing from the kingdom, muft be his inevitable 
lot, that this imaginary prifon operates as a real confinement, 
and the offender fubmiffively waits the arrival of the Officers of 
the Judge. 
Small offences are puniflied by the baftinado : but thofe of a 
greater magnitude fubje£t the convi£t, according to the different 
degrees of guilt, to the penalty of a fine, of imprifonment, ot 
of death. — Shereefs, like the Nobility of other States, are fome- 
times puniflied, as was mentioned before, by the pain of dif- 
honour; in which clafs of punifliments, the moft dreaded, be- 
caufe the moft reproacliful, is the indignity of having duft heaped 
upon their heads. - 
To their infulated and remote fituation, and to their natural 
barrier of defolate mountains and dreary waftes of fand, much 
more than to military ftrength, the people of Fezzan are indebted 
for their fecurity. 
Trufting to this natural defence, their towns are without 
guards, and, their capital excepted, are alfo without walls; nor 
have they any regular ftanding force : yet the Shereef conceives 
that 
