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SCHOOLMASTERS TIN-TAGANNU. 
It is open, and not dangerous. En-Noor, indeed, 
promised to send any of us by that route if we 
wished. There are few people on the route, and 
if you pay them a little money you pass unmolested. 
This Bornouese fighi is not equal to his brethren 
whom I saw in Tintalous. But I learnt from 
this itinerant pedagogue the interesting fact, that 
there are a great number of persons of his pro- 
fession, all from Bornou, travelling about in Aheer. 
Light, therefore, is springing up from the interior, 
and spreading to the coast in an opposite direction 
to what it did in former times. 
5th. — Warmer weather greeted us this morning. 
We stay here to-day. The place is called Tin- 
Tagannu, and is a large wady, full of herbage 
and trees. It is inhabited by a few shepherds. 
This place is said to have been the first of the 
inhabited localities in Aheer, although now shep- 
herds only drive their flocks there; so that spots 
of earth have their seasons and fortunes in the 
Sahara as elsewhere. By the way, I must continue 
to call this Sahara. Although there are periodic 
rains, we are still without the influences of the 
Soudan climate, which begins at Damerghou and 
Zinder, At the present season no country can 
be more healthy than these Asbenouee valleys. I 
hear that nearly all the women, as well as the 
men, have left Tintalous, so that the town is a 
perfect desert. En-Noor has brought his wives 
and daughters, and our caravan is like the mi- 
