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people waiting to see you at Aroukeen. They 
were much disappointed at your not coming. They 
said, — 'The Christians must pass this way.'" It 
appears that a whole tribe of Tuaricks were waiting 
for us, to beg, and to "eat us up," as the Arabs 
graphically express it. In this respect we have 
been fortunate in not finding Tuaricks on our line 
of route. 
1th. — We made another long and weary day 
of twelve hours. The fatigue is killing. Our 
course was south-west, through heaps and groups 
of rocks and narrow shallow wadys. In some 
directions, ridges of small rocks ; in others, isolated 
masses of conic form. The bed of the desert is 
mostly granite, and some of the rocks are of the 
same substance. Indeed, the Central Sahara seems 
to bristle with ridges of granite. Then there are 
many varieties of this stone, and others springing 
out of granite, as quartz rocks and felspar, and 
some sandstone mixed with quartz. Across our 
path we observed many traces of wild oxen, and a 
few were seen with their immense horns. Birds and 
reptiles were rare, and the lizard not so frequent 
as before. Our camels found scarcely a mouthful 
of hasheesh ; no trees were visible, except a few 
miserable tholukhs. 
The Kailouees have changed in a marked man- 
ner since Wataitee has rejoined us, and are much 
more civil. But I do not talk to them, contenting 
myself with a civil " Good day. How do you do?" 
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