PREPARE TO DEPART RULES OF DESERT FASTING. 45 
to leave this place in the course of three or four 
clays. The Sheikh says lie is determined to leave 
in three days, whether the people come from 
Ag-hadez or not. Yusuf laid before En-Noor this 
evening the necessity of our sending a courier to 
Mourzuk, stating that we had nothing left. His 
highness pitied our case, and said he would look 
about for a courier; observing, "The Consul has 
need of much money and many presents in Soudan." 
He said, also, that he would recommend us to go to 
Bornou. 
25th. — The days are now pretty hot, and the 
nights correspondingly cool. We have a good deal 
of wind. I wrote a letter to Drs. Overweg and 
Barth jointly, calling upon them to assist me in 
case the Sfaxee would not wait for his money until 
the return of the courier. Dr. Overweg consents. 
I wrote out the Tuarick alphabet. 
The account of the Tibboos pounding the camels' 
bones and bleeding their animals to make paste, is 
confirmed by the Gatronee of the Germans.* He 
says, moreover, that this is the way in which they 
proceed. Every Tibboo must fast three days before 
lie thinks about eating. If on the fourth day he 
do not arrive at the belad, or country, he then 
takes his left sandal from his foot, and stews or 
socldens it, making something of a soup. These 
sandals being leather, or untanned hide, it is, per- 
* People are called here by the nation, and even town, to which 
they belong, or in which they were born, as sometimes in Europe. 
