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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER III. 
Leave Mizdali — Gloomy Country — Matrimonial Squabbles in the 
Caravan — " Playing at Powder" — Desert Geology — A Eoman 
Mausoleum — Sport — A Bully tamed — Fatiguing March — ^Wady 
Taghijah— Our old Friend the Ethel-Tree— The Waled Bou Seif 
— Independent Arabs — A splendid Mausoleum — One of the 
Nagahs foals — Division of a Goat — March over a monotonous 
Country — Valley of Amjam — Two new Trees — Saluting the New 
Moon — Sight the Plateau of the Hamadah — Wady Tabooneeah 
— Travelling Flies — The Desert Hour — A secluded Oasis — ■ 
Buying Barley — Ghareeah — Roman Remains — Oasean Cultiva- 
tion — Taxation — Sand-Pillar — Arrangements for crossing the 
Hamadah — An Emeute in the Caravan — Are compelled to dis- 
charge the quarrelsome Ali Page 29 
CHAPTER IV. 
Commence crossing the Hamadah — Last Pillar of the Romans — 
Travelling in the Desert — Rapid March — Merry Blacks — Dawn 
— Temperature — Ali returns — Day-travelling — Night-feelings — • 
Animals — Graves of Children — Mirage — Extent of the Plateau 
— It breaks up — Valley of El-Hasee — Farewell to the Hamadah 
i — Arduous Journey — The Camel-drivers — New Country — Moral 
and religious Disquisitions — The Chaouches — Reach Edree — 
Abd-el-Galeel — Description of Edree— Subterranean Dwellings 
— Playing at Powder — The Kaid — Arabic Literature — Desertion 
of the Zintanah — Leave Edree — Sandy Desert — Bou Keta the 
Camel-driver — "Wady El-Makmak — The Lizard — Reach Wady 
Takadafah — Sand — Another Embroglio . . . .43 
CHAPTER V. 
More sandy Desert — Fatiguing March — Water and Herbage — 
Water-drinking — Sight the Plateau over the Mourzuk — Hot 
Wind — Arrival in El-Wady — Tuaricks — Laghareefah — Fezza- 
nees — The Chaouches astray — The Sheikh Abd-el-Hady — De- 
scription of the Oasis — Tempest — Native Huts — Official Visits 
— Desert News — Camel-drivers — Ruins of Azema — Move on — 
