228 PROCEED THROUGH THE INHABITED DISTRICTS. 
a shasheeali and a fateb, I gave a fateli also to one 
of his relations, who is travelling with him. He was 
highly pleased with the gift, and expressed his plea- 
sure in many compliments. Of giving gifts there 
is no end ; bat this is the time, or never, when they 
will be useful. 
23d. — Before we started, another fellow came 
riding up from the rumoured troop of bandits, and 
demanded of our escort that they should give us into 
their hands. Boro remembered his present, and 
expressed his gratitude by resenting this insolence 
with a perfect shower of abuse. 
We advanced nine hours this day, looking be- 
hind us as we moved. Our course lay through a 
rocky country, and two or three fine valleys, dis- 
tinguished chiefly by the immense size of the 
tholukh -trees. In the afternoon a large valley 
opened, amidst a mountainous region ; after tra- 
versing which, we pitched tent in a small open 
space surrounded with hills, with a snug valley of 
hasheesh near at hand. 
When we started in the morning, we bade the 
merchant Waldee adieu. During the night he had 
received a courier from Mourzuk, and letters from 
the Consul and Mustapha Bey to recommend us to 
him. Waldee said he would write us some letters, 
and send them after us. He leaves his caravan at 
Taghajeet, and mounts his maharee for Mourzuk, 
where he expects to arrive in the course of fourteen 
tlavs. 
