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HUNTSMEN FAT WOMEN. 
What a truly Saharan group is that which I have 
just noticed. The vulture feeding on a camel fallen 
in the desert, towards the end of an arduous 
journey ! 
We met a party of huntsmen, with three bul- 
locks to carry their ghaseb. They had six dogs., 
and told us they were off after the giraffe. A few 
lizards now and then glanced over the path, and 
at every thirty or forty yards rose a busy ant-hill. 
En-Noor and I conversed to-day from the backs 
of our respective camels. He asked me particularly 
if I liked stout women, and whether stout women 
were found in England. I replied, gravely, that 
this species occurred in all Christian countries; a 
piece of zoological information which seemed highly 
to gratify him. His highness still pretends he does 
not know where he is going — that is, whether to 
Zinder or Tesaoua. 
We encamped near a shallow wady, the first 
we have seen in this part of the country; i. e. a 
well-defined dry bed of a river. 
