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HUNGER-BELT — SAHARAN REPORTS. 
Laps, not impossible to make of tliem a palatable 
soup ! If on the fifth day he find no village, he 
then devours the sandal of his right foot. After 
this, still not finding a village, he collects bleached 
camels' bones and bleeds his camel as before men- 
tioned. 
A Tibboo always has a girdle with seven knots, 
and when travelling hard takes in, as the sailors 
would say, a reef every day ; if after seven days 
he find nothing to eat, he is considered hungry 
and unfortunate. The three Tuaricks who fol- 
lowed us from the well of Aisou declared that they 
had had nothing to eat for fifteen days ; and there 
cannot be a doubt of the fact, that both the Tibboos 
and the Tuaricks can, on a pinch, remain without 
food for a considerable time — say ten or twelve 
days. 
A Tuatee, who knows Algiers well, arrived here 
this afternoon, and is going with us to Zinder. 
He brings an extraordinary report about the copy 
of the treaty which I left with Haj Ahmed at Ghat. 
He says he heard it read, and from it learned that 
" the Queen of England is now in Tripoli, and 
wishes to come and live in Ghat, and has offered 
to buy half Ghat." Such is the nature of Saharan 
reports. 
More authentic intelligence arrived to-day by a 
courier, who made the journey from Ghat to Se- 
loufeeat in fourteen days — sufficiently quick. This 
courier brings a warning from Khanouhen to the 
