204 COMPLAINT AGAINST THE TUARICKS. 
ances against the Tuaricks, for the information and 
warning of future travellers : — 
1st. They, the Tuaricks, wished to ohtain pre- 
sents from the Germans, nearly in the same quan- 
tity as from myself ; or, at least, something consi- 
derable. 
2d. They wanted us to remain six weeks in Ghat, 
to wait for an answer from Sultan En-Noor at 
Aheer. 
3d. They refused to conduct us to tlie frontier of 
Aheer, according to their agreement at Mourzuk. 
4th. They demanded seventy reals for the pas- 
sage of our free blacks. 
5th. They insisted on having the presents for 
Berka, Khanouhen, and Jabour, before the treaty 
was signed. 
The first two demands I successfully resisted, as 
also the third at Ghat. The fourth was compro- 
mised ; we paid twenty-eight reals instead of seventy. 
The last I yielded, on the condition that I should 
only give three burnouses. 
13^^. — The v/ater of Esalan is, likewise, nothing 
but a deposit of rain. Several holes a. e scooped out 
in the sand, down to the rocky bed of the valley. 
