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a pathetic lamentation, and talked loudly of what 
her parent would do to her. Young ladies often 
think of their mothers a little too late under these 
circumstances. 
A slave of the Sultan of Aghadez arrived this 
morning, in six days from the capital, to inquire 
after the health of En-Noor. He brings no par- 
ticular news, but says he saw Barth at Aghadez. 
" Man is to man the surest, deadliest foe," has 
been quoted from the poet as most applicable to 
the moral and social state of Africa. It may truly 
be said to be our case, for hitherto we have suffered 
little in this town except from men. Looking 
also around us, the people suffer less from the arid 
country which they inhabit than from the violence 
which they inflict one upon another. 
I learned from Yusuf yesterday evening, that 
for every dollar I take from the Sfaxee, if I pay in 
Mourzuk, I must give two. I was greatly afflicted 
at this positive declaration, but scarcely believe it ; 
if it, however, prove to be the case, I must by all 
means find money in Soudan. It will be a hard 
fight, indeed, to keep down the expenses of this 
expedition ; however, every effort must be employed 
to effect this desirable object. 
Mara dee, I learn, is three days west from Te- 
saoua; and this latter place is two from Zinder 
There is another village, called Gazawa, one day 
south of Tesaoua. The inhabitants of these places 
are half Mahommedans and half pagans : the latter 
