SIDI JAFEL AGAIN. 
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CHAPTER XIII. 
News of Sidi Jafel — Disputes with Wataitee — His violent Conduct 
and strange Language — The Desert — Scarcity of Money — Proceed 
through a rocky Country — Soudan Weather — Approach the Frontiers 
of Aheer — Storm — Hard Day's Travelling — The Seven Wells of 
Aisou — *' The Haghar are coming" — Suspicious Charactei's — Alarm 
— The Three Strangers — Our Hospitality — Heat of the Weather — 
Hard Travelling — Account of the Kailouee Guides — Women of the 
Caravan — Their Treatment — Youthful Concubines — Another long 
Day — A Rock-Altar — Demonstrations of the Haghar — ^Wells of 
Jeenanee — Marks of Rain — Sprightly Blacks — New Climate — 
Change in the Vegetation and the Atmosphere. 
We have at length heard what appears to be a fair 
account of the rumour respecting that terrible Sidi 
Jafel. He did leave Janet as if bound for Tajetterat ; 
but it was for the purpose of giving his camels a 
feeding of herbage in that direction. He took his 
family and tents with him, and has been seen with 
his son by the huntsmen of Wady Aroukeen. He is 
not a sheikh, but a spirited old man ; and, from what 
I can understand, is a Haghar belonging to Ghe- 
mama, and not an Azgher of Ghat, They now 
assure us that he had never any intention of attacking 
