TIBBOOS AND KAILOUEES. 
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times, or more, if great friends, and conclude this 
pressing of the hand with a sort of jerk, drawing 
quickly off each other's hand. In taking hold of 
the hand of your friend, you fit your thumb in the 
circle formed by his thumb and fingers, and every 
time you press his hand, and he presses yours, you 
separate the hands from each other.* 
Nov. 1st. — The month has set in with wind, — 
not gusts, but steady wind, continually blowing from 
E.N.E. It is stated positively that we leave here 
to-morrow morning, whether the people return or 
not from Aghadez. I register all reports as I hear 
them, though perfectly aware that we have not been 
yet quite let into the secret of the singular migration 
in which we are about to bear a part. The greater 
number of the men of Tintalous have gone to 
Bilma in search of salt ; and I originally under- 
stood that the great annual caravan was for the 
transport of this necessary article. Perhaps En- 
Noor means to go slowly on, just to keep us in 
good humour. Our intercourse with the Kai- 
louees has taught us to consider them a very mild, 
companionable race. Often indeed, like children, 
I wonder what the Tibboos can see in them to make 
them so desperately afraid, for I am told ten Kai- 
louees will frighten away fifty Tibboos of Bilma,. 
But the Tibboos of Tibesty are considered a braver 
race. It is worthy of remark, that these cowardly 
* This mode of shaking hands is common among the Fellahs of 
Egypt.— Ed. 
