GHASEB THE CARAVAN. 
101 
A caravan of gliaseb has arrived from Damer- 
ghou, by which we learn that the Sfaxee and 
Fezzan merchants are arrived in that country. 
We have been trying to buy ghaseb of the people, 
or of En-Noor ; but it appears we were too late, 
for it is said to be all gone. The dollars are worth 
only 1750 wadas here, whilst in Kanou they pass 
for 2500. Every article is depreciated in value 
in Aheer, because food is scarce. We have, how- 
ever, managed to purchase a bullock — a great 
beast. 
28th. — I did not feel so well after the meat- 
eating; we have had so little of it, and so seldom, 
that a little extra quite upsets me, and the gnaw- 
ing it makes all my teeth bleed. Thermometer, 50°. 
The weather has changed to mistiness, haziness. 
It is now reported that we still remain here twenty- 
five days longer, the caravan arriving only in twenty 
days, and five being allowed to rest the camels. 
So we have time enough for the Haussa and Bornou 
languages. I wish to master the grammar of 
each, so as to superintend some translation of the 
Scriptures. 
29th. — The weather is still hazy, and warmer; 
but whilst it is warmer in the morning it is cooler 
in the mid-day, on account of the clouds and haze. 
Half an hour after sunrise, thermometer 56°. 
En-Noor says we shall start in seventeen days, 
but ten days more or less for these people are no- 
thing. Our courier for the money has just been 
