122 HARD BARGAIN. 
miserable he is !' " Besides paying about two hun- 
dred Spanish dollars for the escort, I have had to 
feed all the people, and furnish them with tents. 
They had led me to expect much more reasonable 
treatment ; but there is no help, and I feel that I am 
not yet at the end of my troubles of this description. 
With these prefatory remarks, I enter upon an ac- 
count of my departure from Mourzuk for the oasis 
of Ghat. 
