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our European aristocrats, seem to have no other 
occupation. God has created the earth for this 
class to gallop about over. It was very warm and 
fine all day ; thermometer at noon, in tent, 95^ Fahr. : 
there was little wind. 
The secret of En-Noor's authority is this : in 
all his great gains, and lucky enterprises, and pieces 
of good fortune — as our arrival here has proved — 
he gives his principal people and courtiers a share 
of the profit or the spoil ; and when nothing par- 
ticular is going on, he feeds them from the granary 
of his house, or clothes them from his heaped-up 
merchandise. All this, however, does not save the 
prince from being occasionally robbed— if we are to 
believe report, which says that the other evening 
some black cotton turbans were taken from his house. 
The news from the town is, that En-Noor and his 
courtiers have received the amount of their extortion 
in goods. We have now given at Tintalous to the 
value of nearly a thousand dollars, and yet we have 
not received the smallest present in return — not a 
supper the day of our arrival, not a little butter or 
fruit ; nothing, absolutely nothing I 
Our servants have nearly procured all the ghaseb 
which they require for the journey from this to 
Zinder, viz. one hundred sahs. This they have pur- 
chased with various little wares, principally knives 
and looking-glasses. The ghaseb is always mixed 
with ghafouley, a species of grain about a third the 
size of a small pea. Ghafouley is called houla in 
