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many small birds, the lizard (in small numbers), the 
jerboah, the locust, butterflies, and other insects, the 
thob, the large turtle, &c. Overweg says the foot- 
marks of the hyaena were also seen. 
En-Noor's people caught a young ostrich, only a 
few hours hatched. It is now kept as a pet. Several 
eggs have been also picked up. The ostrich has 
been seen feeding on the gum of the tholukh-tree. 
As to trees, we have still the eternal tholukh, or 
mimosa. What an omnipresent tree is this in 
Africa ! The mimosa is found at the Cape, with 
the ethel ; it is found in all the northern Sahara, 
and the ethel with it, wherever there is some water, 
as in the wadys of Fezzan. In all the western 
Sahara it abounds, producing the finest gums. 
Consider also the gum-trade at Mogador and Sene- 
gal ! In the plain of Timbuctoo, the mimosa is 
found in scattered forests. Our people pretend, 
however, that the tholukh does not occur in Soudan, 
its place being filled up by various thorny trees, 
much resembling the mimosa. We have around 
us some other stunted shrubs. All trees are 
dwarfish in these plateaux. 
Various distinguished characters are amongst the 
servants and slaves of En-Noor. One fellow is 
called the " King of the Donkeys," another wench is 
styled the " Queen of the Goats Zumzug is pro- 
perly named Prolan berau, "a great thief,*' from his 
thievish propensities. Then there is the " Lad of 
the Arrows," the fellow who is always boasting of 
