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gentlemen get, the younger they require their con- 
cubines to be. An aged sinner of Aghadez had a 
mere child with him. En-Noor is said to have 
half-a-dozen stout girls runniug about his house. 
Really, to satisfy the passions and sensuality of these 
Africans, women should be like the houris of Para- 
dise, and never grow old. Those that accompanied 
us were, of course, regarded as mistresses, but were 
required also to do nearly all the drudgery of the 
caravan. Their masters must have sold much 
prettier and finer girls at Ghat. 
The name of the place where we are now en- 
camped is, as I have said, Takeesat, and that of 
the rocky plain we traversed between Esalan 
and Aisou is [omitted in Journal]. We shall now 
have great confusion in the denominations of places, 
the Tuaricks using one name and the Kailouees 
another. 
20th. — We rose early, and at four o'clock were 
already in motion. It was a long and weary day — 
fourteen hours of actual travelling ; but this, thank 
Heaven ! is, we are told, the last long stretch of that 
kind we shall have to undertake. The country was 
nearly similar to that between Falezlez and Aisou; 
plains or slightly indented valleys. The granite 
appeared again, with sandstone on the top. No 
herbage was found to-day, except a few scanty bits 
here and there. 
In the morning our blacks all ran up to a sugar- 
loaf shaped rock, which they called their altar 
