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tlieir minds, of the generous treatment which they had received, 
fent them back to Tibefti. 
From that period no attempt to molefi: his caravans has been 
made by the mountaineers ; and though they neither acknow- 
ledge the Kingof Fezzan for their Sovereign, nor pay him any 
tribute, yet they bring the whole of their fenna to Mourzouk for 
fale, where it is purchafed to great advantage by the King, and 
is afterwards fold, on his account, at the market of Tripoli. 
An occalional vlfit to the Court of Fezzan is paid by their 
Chief, who is always received with great hofpitality, and after a 
refidence of a few weeks, is difmiffed, with a prefent of a long 
robe. • 
The vales of Tibeftl are fertile in corn, and pafturage for cat- 
tle, of which they have numerous herds, and are particularly 
celebrated for their breed of camels, which are efteemed the beft 
in Africa. For this fertility they are indebted to the water of the 
innumerable fprings that amply compenfate for the want of 
rain, which feldom, if ever, falls within the limits of Tibefti. 
Huts of the fimpleft conftruQiion (for they are formed of flakes 
Q driven 
