310 SUPPOSED DANGERS — KAILOUEES. 
Sheikh is now waxing might}- civil, and swears that 
we are his walad (children). We shall see what 
we shall see. Yusuf even thinks he can be per- 
suaded to sign the treaty. All the Kailouees are 
very fond of powder, and also very much alarmed at 
it. They say they could themselves make plenty of 
powder if saltpetre were found them. 
2lst. — It appears that some of the districts of 
Damerghou are included within the circle of Aheer, 
and that the Kailonees exercise authority there. 
En-Noor has a house there. 
Overweg's three hypotheses of danger south of 
Bornou are : — 
1 . To be stripped of everything by robbers, and 
left naked in the wilderness. 
2. To be devoured by wild beasts. 
3. To be forced to traverse a desert where there 
is no subsistence for man or beast. Indeed, after the 
experience we have had up this road, although a 
Tuarick road (and Tuaricks are not supposed to have 
a peculiar antipathy to Christians), it will be next 
to suicide to proceed far south without adequate 
guides and protection. 
The two predominant passions of men in all 
these Tuarick countries, especially Aheer, are for 
dress and women. A few only are tainted by fana- 
ticism, and fewer still are misers ; because, probably 
they have nothing to save. Of the character of the 
women I cannot speak, for want of experience ; the 
few we have met with have begged mostly for trinkets^ 
