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HOT WIND LAZY AZGHER. 
Germans go, with Hateetah and Shafou, the difficult 
one ; and we leave the heavy luggage and the cara- 
van to go the easy route. This, at least, is the 
arrangement talked of this evening. The morrow 
may bring something new. 
The Tuaricks who arrived to-day expected a 
supper : Hateetah sent to the Germans to find them 
one ; the Germans referred them to Moknee ; and 
we provided. 
We must take care we do not have too many 
customers of this sort, or we shall never get up to 
Aheer with the present stock of provisions. 
To call the wind under which we are suffering 
gheblee, is a perfect misnomer ; for the hot wind of 
to-day and yesterday came directly from the norths 
*' Bahree I" As Yusuf said, however,wlien I told him 
where the wind was from : " Where now is the sea? 
It is a long way from the sea." 
The thermometer was 106° Fahrenheit in the 
shade of the etliel to-day. We shall rarely have it 
much hotter than this. In Bornou there is rarely 
more than 104° in the shade. 
\^th. — Saturday.^' The morning is advancing 
and the Tuaricks are not yet moving. These Azgher 
are sad lazy dogs. It appears they have changed 
their minds, and we are all to go the long and easy 
way. The sun is rising in haze with a little wind. 
* The 12th is missed, and Dr. Richardson notes in his journal 
ti^at the date is to be rectified backwards ; but he does not say where 
the rectification is to begin — Ed. 
