CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER XI. • 
Start from Ghat — Reflections — Beautiful Valley of Berket — Last 
Date-palms — The Kailouees — Dr. Barth lost again — Meet our 
Guides — The Akourou Water — Ghadeer — Soudan Influence on 
the Tuaricks — Wataitee leaves us — Oasis of Janet— Kailouee 
Character — A sick Slave — Rocky Desert — Gloomy Scene — Ser- 
vants — Egheree Water — Ajunjer — A threatened Foray from 
Janet — Sidi Jafel Waled Sakertaf — We have no Money — Region 
of Granite — Dr. Earth's Comparisons — A Slave Caravan — 
Granite Rocks — Beating Women — The Bird of the Desert — 
Desolate Region — Our Relations with the Kailouees Page 171 
CHAPTER XII. 
Reach Falezlez — Dates left in the Desert — Road-marks — Disputes 
with the Kailouees — News from Tidek — Scarcity of Food in 
Aheer — Similitudes and Signs of the Tuaricks — Fine Climate — 
Arrival of Wataitee — His Boasting — Saharan travelling — My 
Umbrella — Grasping Son of Shafou — Geology of the Desert — 
The "Person who gives" — Another Caravan — Tuarick Sports- 
men — Wady Aroukeen — Fine Scene — New Trees— Kailouee 
Camels — Fine Nights — Well — New Moon— Passing a Caravan 
in the Desert — Origin of the Kailouee Tuaricks — Ariive at 
Tajetterat — No Robbers — An Alarm — Well of Esalan — Senna — 
Birds — Graves of Slave Children — Our Grievances against the 
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CHAPTER XIII. 
News of Sidi Jafel — Disputes vnth Wataitee — His violent Conduct 
and strange Language — The Desert — Scarcity of Money — Pro- 
ceed through a rocky Country — Soudan Weather — Approach 
the Frontiers of Aheer — Storm — Hard Day's Travelling — The 
Seven Wells of Aisou — " The Haghar are coming " — Suspicious 
Characters — Alarm — The Three Strangers — Our Hospitahty — 
Heat of the Weather — Hard Travelling — Account of the Kai- 
louee Guides— Women of the Caravan — Their Treatment — 
Youthful Concubines — Another long Day — A Rock Altar — 
