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* 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 Sportsmen — Wady Aroukeen — 
Fine Scene — New Trees — Kailouee Camels — Fine Nights — Well — 
New Moon — Passing a Caravan in the Desert — Origin of the Kailouee 
Tuaricks — Arrive at Tajetterat — No Robbers — An Alarm — ^Well of 
Esalan — Senna — Birds — Graves of Slave Children — Our Grievances 
against the Tuaricks. 
4bth. — We might have reached the well of Fa- 
lezlez last night ; but as we did not know who 
might be waiting for us there, preferred halting 
three-quarters of an hour from it, and advanced 
only in the morning, in broad daylight. 
Here we found our dates, left by the Tanelkums 
in the side of a mound of sand, with a piece of 
rotten wood stuck up to mark the place. Had 
they been, however, exposed by the side of the 
well, and a hundred caravans had passed, no one 
would have touched them. It is a point of honour 
to steal nothing thus confided in the desert. Mu- 
