KILGRIS AND KAILOUEES. 
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following letters: — sh is confounded with ch or tch, 
I w r ith r, and r with Z, o with &c. Letters are 
also frequently unnecessarily doubled. These differ- 
ences, however, will never much affect the conver- 
sation, when the parties are well agreed upon what 
subject they are conversing. 
10^. — This morning we are removing to the 
shade of the trees, near En-Noor. Dr. Barth de- 
scribes the Kilgris as very fine, tall men, and much 
lighter in complexion than the Kailouees : they 
dress very simply, having only the black turkadee 
on their heads, having neither a bakin zakee under 
it, nor any white shash, or fotah,to wind upon it, in 
the fashion of the Kailouees. They are, like all 
these tribes, very proud, and nourish a deadly en- 
mity towards the Kailouees, of whom they take 
precedence in Aghadez. Barth gave away a black- 
lead pencil in Aghadez, and afterwards everybody 
came to ask him for one. A person got one pencil, 
and begged another, saying, "the two would last 
him his whole life." 
W th. — The weather is increasingly cold in the 
morning; three-quarters of an hour after sunrise 
the thermometer w r as 45° in open air. 
His highness vouchsafed this day to sleep in my 
tent, and yesterday he did the Germans the honour 
of slaughtering lice in theirs. It is a grand piece 
of etiquette in this country, that every man has the 
privilege of murdering his own lice. If you pick a 
louse off a man's sleeve, you must deliver it up 
