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A COMPLIMENT. 
CHAPTER XVI. 
Promises of the Sultan — Yellow-painted Women — Presents — Anecdotes 
— Prepare to visit En-Noor — Our Reception — Dialogue — Seeming 
Liberality of the Sultan — Greediness of his People — No Provisions 
to be got — Fat Women — Nephew of the Sultan — Tanelkum 
Beggars — Weather — A Divorced Lady — Aheer Money — Our 
Camels again stolen — Account of the Tanelkums — Huckster 
Women — Aheer Landscape — Various Causes of Anno3^ance — No 
News of the Camels — Anecdote of my Servants — Storms — 
Revolution in the Desert — Name of the Country — Dr. Overweg 
— Money and Tin — Saharan Signs — Habits of the Rain — Burial 
of a Woman — Demands of Es-Sfaxee — Salt-cakes of Bilma — 
People of Tintalous — Wild Animals — List of Tovms and Villages 
— Population of Aheer and Ghat. 
Oct. 4th. — This morning I sent Yusuf with oar re- 
commendations to En-Noor. He returned in the 
best possible humour, repeating that the Sultan was 
determined to protect us, and see ns safe to Soudan 
and Bornou. 
A freed black came into my tent, played on his 
one-stringed fiddle, and sang an extempore song for 
the protection of the Consul. I gave him a hand- 
kerchief. It appears that he is from Tunis. 
Yesterday, some specimens of the women of the 
lower classes of this town came to our encampment. 
