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them ready to escape this trouble when they can. 
However, it appears that En-Noor recommended 
us not to pitch our tents, that we may not be known 
during the night, in the event of these three Haghars 
having comrades skulking after them, seeking an 
opportunity to attack us. 
2lst. — We rose an hoar before daylight, and 
journeyed eight hours, passing through a country 
resembling that of yesterday, and a pleasant valley 
called Wady Jeenanee, until we arrived at the wells 
of the same name. They are scooped out of the sand 
in a stony bed, and amidst rocks. The water is very 
palatable. It has no natural source, but there is 
an abundant supply for several months, and even 
years, after great rains. 
To-day we noticed, for the first time on our 
journey fropi Tripoli, the recent marks of the fall of 
a great quantity of rain. It had left after it exactly 
the same forms on the sandy valley which we see at 
all times, quite dry, in the more desolated regions of 
the Sahara. There cannot be a doubt that occasion- 
ally an immense quantity of rain falls in every 
region of this great desert. 
The senna plant was picked up again to-day, 
and the tree called aborah appeared in great num- 
bers in the wady, in a corner of which we encamped. 
Although our friends, the three Haghars, pro- 
mised to leave us for ever if they had a supper, 
yesterday they appeared again en route to chat with 
their Tanelkum acquaintances. God knows, they 
