FADEEA OULIMAD. 
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misty, but a little cold this morning; thermometer, 
at three-quarters of an hour after sunrise, 43°. 
Nearly all the salt-caravan has arrived, and pro- 
ceeded in advance, coming in small detachments. 
They rendezvous in a fine wady full of herbage, with 
water higher up. We are expected to leave in a 
few days, three or four at most. Nothing seems 
now to detain En-Noor. But the Fadeea have re- 
turned from the Hagar, finding themselves not pur- 
sued. They very naturally prefer their own fine 
valley in Asben to the stony, desert wilds of Ha- 
gars. I suppose a razzia will be executed against 
them, for the restoration of the camels of Tintag- 
hocla, on the return of the salt-caravan from Soudan. 
En-Noor gives a tremendously unfavourable 
account of the Oulimad, who occupy the desert of 
Sahara between Aghadez and Timbuctoo, and keep 
the road there shut against caravans. He says ? 
they would sleep in our tents in the day, eat and 
drink with us ; but in the night they would carry 
away the tent, and make themselves clothing with 
it. In fact, En-Noor considers them the veriest 
barbarians in this region of Africa. There may be 
a little exaggeration in this, and the Oulimad may 
not be worse than the Hagars of Ghemfima, or even 
than some of his own people. The Kailouees do 
not hunt, nor do they cultivate the soil ; so that 
this country abounds with animals. Some of the 
country is extremely wild and rocky, and affords 
many a retired den for the lions, who descend from 
