176 PLEASANT FAMILIES — SALT-CARAVAN. 
direction, is separated from Bornou by about eleven 
hours of forest, or some thirty miles English — a 
sufficient distance to divide two countries, especially 
in Africa. The trees were larger to-day, and some 
of considerable altitude. Many pretty yellow blos- 
soms, glowed on a species of shrub not unlike the 
laburnum. 
I observed scattered in the forest small mounds 
of mud, wasting away to the level of the ground : 
there were many of them ; the birds perch thereon. 
We have seen a few nice families amongst the 
Tuaricks and their slaves, but these are mostly 
foreigners. There is the family of the Tripoline 
slave ; her husband is a pleasant, quiet man, and one 
of En-Noor's household : she has a daughter and one 
cade-lamb. Then there is the Bornou fighi and his 
wife. These people are so affable, that they always 
have visitors near their little tent. They have also 
a cade-lamb. Their tent is a curiosity. It is just 
large enough for one of them to creep in — not for 
two. I suppose the fighi enters at night, and leaves 
his wife to sleep at the door. 
A detachment of the salt-caravan passed us to- 
day for Zinder. The whole force of the salt-caravan 
this year could not be more than fifteen hun- 
dred. Two divisions were with us of Kailouees, 
one in advance, each of five hundred, and the Kil- 
gris' division of five hundred. So much for the 
boasted ten thousand camels which were gone this 
year to bring salt ! From En-Noor one could not 
