SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS. 
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En-Noor related a pretty anecdote of himself 
and his younger days in our tent to-day. After 
saying, that formerly the Asbenouee people were 
the only folks considered bad in these parts, he 
observed, that now he himself and the Asbenouee 
were certainly much improved in their manners and 
dispositions ; " for," added he, " there were once 
four fighis (charm-writers) who employed people to 
speak against me, and bring me into disrepute. 
What did I do? I called them to me, gave them 
fine presents of burnouses and a great supper, with 
an apartment in which to pass the night. But when 
they were fast asleep I dug a large hole, fetched 
them all out of the room, killed them, and covered 
them up in the hole. Now, however," continued 
his highness, " we do not go so far as this, but 
content ourselves with taking away an enemy's 
camels." 
15th. — Weather cold this morning. Thermo- 
meter at sunrise, 43°. I hang the thermometer on 
the tent-ropes, just outside, at about a foot from the 
ground. 
Hamma (son-in-law of En-Noor) returned this 
morning from the salt-caravan. He marked on 
the sand that the caravan would be thirty-five days 
before it returned; so, I imagine, we have still from 
this time some thirty days to wait here. He left 
the caravan on its entering the Hamadah, between 
this and Bilma. 
