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gentleman on these visits. This time it was an aged 
Tanelkum, who married a sister of the Sheikh and 
has been settled many years in the country. We 
gave him more tea, and also a piece of white sugar, 
to carry home. 
This evening the Fezzan and Tripoli Arabs had 
a musical entertainment, accompanied with dancing, 
at which Madame En-Noor and several distinguished 
ladies of Tintalous assisted. It was the usual singing 
business, with Moorish hammering on tambourines. 
The dance was performed by men, mostly in imita- 
tion of the women, and was also of the usual inelegant 
and indelicate description. However, there was a 
little mixing of the derwish dances. The thing went 
off to the great satisfaction of the Kailouees, and was 
kept up till midnight. 
8^A. — I slept little after the villanous dancing 
and riot of the preceding night, and rose late. My 
occupation this day was completing my vocabulary of 
the Kailouee language, of which I expect to collect 
a thousand words. My interpreter sometimes gives 
very curious explanations when I work with him. 
The Arabic word which we translate " Alas!" com- 
ing under consideration, he observed : " There is no 
corresponding word in the languages of these coun- 
tries. This word belongs to the Koran and the 
next world." He means, that the word has only a 
relation to the torment of the damned. It is curious 
that this Arabic term agrees with, or is like, our 
word wail (Ar. weel), and is the term used by our 
