CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER XVI. * 
Promises of the Sultan — Yellow-painted Women — Presents — Anec- 
dotes Prepare to visit En~Noor — Our Reception — Dialogue — 
Seeming Liberality of the Sultan — Greediness of his People — 
No Pro^dsions to be got — Fat Women — Nephew of the Sultan — 
Tanelkum Beggars Weather — A Divorced Lady — Aheer Money 
— Our Camels again stolen — Account of the Tanellcums — 
Huckster Women — Aheer Landscape — Various Causes of 
Annoyance — No News of the Camels — Anecdote of my Servants 
— Storms — Revolution in the Desert — Name of the Country — 
Dr. Overweg — Money and Tin — Saharan Signs — Habits of the 
Rain — Burial of a Woman — Demands of Es-Sfaxee — Salt-cakes 
of Bilma — People of Tintalous — ^Wild Animals — List of Towns 
and Villages — Population of Aheer and Ghat . Page 264 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Zinder Caravan — Negress playing "Boree" — Curious Scene — 
Objects of Barter — Eresli Annoyances — Remarks on our Re- 
ception in Aheer — En-Noor—Asoudee — Better News — Fresh 
Extortions — En-Noor disappoints us — Europeans taken for 
Spies — Things in demand at Aheer — Exercise — Overweg's 
Patients — Wild Animals in Aheer — Kailouees in dry W^eather — 
Robbing a Prince — Ghaseb and Ghafouley — Aheer Cheese — 
Mokhlah Bou Yeldee — Our Wealth noised abroad — Alarm at 
Night — A fresh Attack — Said's Gallantry — Disorderly Protectors 
— Thirteen Robbers — Amankee — Loss of my Tea — Country of 
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CHAPTER XVIIL 
We shift our Encampment — En-Noor's Circular — The Kadi's Deci- 
sion — No Progress in the Sahara — Aghadez G-umruk — Scor- 
pions — Election of Sultans in Aheer — Present of Salutation — 
Paying for finding lost Property — Courier from the new Sultan 
— No Presents sent us — Notes on Denham — A Bornouese 
