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ARRIVAL AT AGHADEZ. 
ghaseb, but corn, wine, dates, and all kinds of vege- 
tables. Fifty gardens adorn, it is said, the neigh- 
bourhood of Ifargen. But, in general, the rich soil 
is left uncultivated, and is covered by wild and 
sickly vegetation, which checks the progress of the 
traveller. 
In Wadi Buddeh grows a prickly plant called 
karengia; and a parasite {griffenee), producing a 
sweet but insipid berry of a red colour. A party of 
five lions were pursued like so many jackals. A small 
caravan of four persons, in Wadi Teffarrakad, were 
making use of four different modes of progression : 
one was on a camel, another on a buffalo, the third 
on a donkey, and the fourth used his own legs. In 
Wady Boghel were the signs of a field of ghaseb 
having existed last year. The ground was covered 
by a sickly wild melon ; and in the thick foliage of 
the trees the guinea-hens were cackling. Here Dr. 
Barth saw the first specimen of the baure tree, 
the trunk measuring twenty-six feet in circum- 
ference, and the thick crown rising to the height of 
eighty feet. Here and elsewhere wild beasts were 
observed. The whole country, indeed, abounds in 
lions, wild boars, gazelles, ostriches, and monkeys. 
On the seventh day the party reached Aghadez, 
which they entered about an hour after sunset, it 
being the custom in this country never to enter a 
town by day. Aghadez is situated on a hamadah, 
or lofty plateau of sandstone and granite formation. 
Around, although there is no arable soil, a good 
