£88 
TRAVELS IN THE SAHARA. 
and a little barley-meal mixed with brackish wa- 
ter, when it could be procured. On the first day 
his steps were marked with blood ; but the Arabs 
drew out the thorns from his feet, and, having 
scraped his soles with their daggers, plastered 
them over with tar and sand, which enabled him 
to walk without farther pain or difficulty. In 
that part of the desert which he traversed, he ob- 
served much excellent land, that would be very 
fertile if cultivated. It produced great quantities 
of truffles, which the Moors, with much humanity, 
denied to themselves, and gave to M. Saugnier. 
He was employed, when he resided at the horde, 
in making butter, by shaking the milk in a goat's 
skin, and in collecting dead wood ; for, though 
the country was covered with bushes, the Arabs 
iiever touched a green stick. M. Saugnier had 
not remained long in this situation, till he was 
sold to one of the Moors, who at that period were 
in rebellion against the Emperor of Marocco, for 
a barrel of meal, and an iron bar about nine feet 
in length. During a journey of nine days, he ate 
nothing but small wild fruits resembling jujubes. 
After being repeatedly sold, he rescued his mas- 
ter from being assassinated by four Arabs, from 
which moment his sufferings were at an end, and 
he was treated as one of the tribe. But, as he 
refused to renounce his country, he was again 
sold to the chief of Glimi, who then commanded 
