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WHO WERE OUR ENEMIES. 
for SO many days by ramours of intended attacks, we 
should have laughed at these Haghars, however 
fierce might have been their looks, and however 
hostile their intentions. But our guides, who knew 
the habits of the desert, did not think it beneath 
their dignity to be alarmed, nor to look anxiously 
about to the right and to the left, as if every stone 
concealed an enemy, every ravine an ambush. 
By the way, it may be as well to mention here, 
that the reader may know how to call the enemies 
we feared, that although vulgarly the whole race 
that inhabits between the borders of Fezzan and 
Timbuctoo are called Haghar, the Tuaricks of Ghat 
are properly distinguished as Azgher ; and those 
located towards Tuat and the Joliba, Haghar. Had 
they and their party been of generally predatory dis- 
positions, they would have had something to occupy 
them — the caravan belonging to Haj Ibrahim coming 
from Soudan. We should, perhaps, be uncharitable 
enough to hope that precious time might be oc- 
cupied in plundering these good people, were we 
not certain that, if we are really to be attacked, it is 
because of the presence of Christians. Will our 
guides peril life or limb to preserve from danger 
people whose tenets they abhor? 
}9th. — The three men, supposed scouts or spies, 
remained with us during the night. At first, it was 
proposed to push on, and get as far as possible away 
from danger ; but as our unbidden guests made a great 
oath that they did not know that there were foreigners 
