THINGS OBSERVED — DAMERGHOU. 
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by the Ghadamsee merchants, is, at this view of it, 
only a low range. Two little things observed to- 
day were, first, a ' f traveller's sharpening stone," on 
which every person passing by sharpened his dag- 
ger or his sword : next, were heaps of sand scraped 
together, and sticks or stalks of herbage stuck on 
the top, as frail marks of the route, corresponding 
to the heaps of stone which mark in line the routes 
of the Sahara. There was also a mosque formed of 
boughs of trees; that is, a low wall of the ground- 
plan of a mosque made of boughs of trees, like the 
walls of stone in other places. The trees were as 
before, always those fall of thorns, like the tholukh; 
many of the species bearing what is called the date 
of this country. No animals of game were seen, 
except a solitary hare; but there were marks of the 
foot of the mohur, or large gazelle. 
The lading of the camels in the morning takes 
always an hour and a-half : we have few people, 
compared with the number of beasts of burden. 
However, under the leadership of En-Noor, who 
has now decked himself in a fine yellow burnouse, 
a sort of ensign of authority, the caravan marches 
in great order and tranquillity. 
The inhabitants of Damerghou are said to be 
a mixture of Kohlans and Tuaricks ; the latter, 
however, receding into the interior. But if the 
Tuaricks have dispossessed the Kohlans, they have 
almost become Kohlans themselves, forgetting their 
own language and their own customs and manners. 
