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STORY OF A SICK SLAVE. 
incident has just occurred which has much dis- 
pleased me. 
It appears that when these people came to Ghat, 
a few weeks ago, they left a sick slave with some 
shepherds among these rocks. To-day they inquired 
about the slave, whether she was dead, or what had 
hecome of the poor thing ; hut the shepherds 
refused to give any account, — said, in fact, they knew 
nothing about the matter. Upon this the Kailouees 
seized a black boy belonging to these poor people 
and dragged him along, with a rope round his neck, 
to terrify him into confessing what had become of 
the slave. The poor boy, however, had nothing to 
confess ; so at last, after they had dragged him for 
some distance, they let him go. Such is a specimen 
of the incidents which almost daily occur, arising 
out of this horrible traffic. I lectured one of the 
Kailouees on the subject, 'and told him that we were 
in Tuarick territory, and that such an action might 
bring the genuine Tuaricks upon us. 
It would appear that the governor of the town 
of Aghadez, or rather of the whole Kailouee race, 
is not known, there having lately been a revolution 
in this Saharan region. All the country is up in 
arms. We shall arrive at the interesting crisis 
of a change of dynasty. The two Sultans of Aheer 
known, are our friends En-Noor and Lousou. 
21th. — We rose at daybreak and soon started, 
ascending from the valley through a difficult pass 
to a rocky plateau, over which we pursued our unde- 
