BILMA SOUDAN CARAVAN. 
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and looking-glasses, but we have seen little of tlie 
love of intrigue. 
About Aheer, the Bornou and Soudan routes 
appear not to be far apart. The Tibboos make 
Kisbee to be only eight days from Aghadez. The 
Kailouees also state that Bilma (or Boulouma, in 
their pronunciation) is only seven or eight days of 
good travelling from Tintalous; but the salt-caravans 
always employ fourteen days, arriving at Bilma on 
the fifteenth. 
Yesterday afternoon a portion of a large Sou- 
dan caravan arrived. A number of bullocks were 
amongst its beasts of burden ; one of these had im- 
mense branching horns, and, according to the report 
of Said's wife, v/as of the same species as those found 
in her country, Kanemboo, near Bornou. These bul- 
locks seemed to be in every respect trained like horses, 
and some of them carry a burden of four cantars. 
22c?. — I rose early, to prepare my despatches for 
Mourzuk and England. To-day not much wind, only 
a little refreshing breeze. The wind, which appears 
to visit us daily instead of the rain, generally begins 
about an hour after noon, and continues to blow in 
fitful gusts until three or four p.m., when it gradually 
sinks. The evenings are perfectly calm, though 
not always cloudless. 
Yesterday five maharees arrived from Tintaghoda, 
mounted by persons who came to inquire after the 
health of En-Noor. They left early this morning. 
Somehow or other these maharees always look sus- 
