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ADAMs's NARRATIVE. 
These beds are from five to six feet deep, and 
from twenty to thirty yards in circumference. 
The salt, which is partly red, comes up in large 
lumps mixed with earth. Taudeny is a large vil- 
lage inhabited by Moors and negroes, who are 
both equally black ; its neighbourhood is culti- 
vated like that of Tombuctoo, and abounds with 
date and fig-trees. Here the travellers remained 
fourteen days for refreshment. They then en- 
tered upon the desert of deserts, if we may use 
the expression, the depth of the Sahara, where 
the sandy plain stretches on every side its unvari- 
ed surface, like that of the sea. Along this they 
travelled twenty-nine days without seeing a plant, 
a shrub, or a blade of grass, and without meeting 
a human being. The travellers, and especially 
those who had been under confinement, began to 
sink under so long a series of fatigue and priva- 
tion. They were supported, however, by the 
prospect of arriving at a station where a supply 
of water was to be found. On reaching it, 
the spring was found dry ; and they had ten 
days to march with a supply of less than four 
gallons. This, even with the loathsome addition 
of camel's urine, proved very inadequate ; several 
of their number dropped down on the road, and 
doubtless perished. At length they arrived at 
Woled D'leim, a village of tents, inhabited by 
Moors, who, in their dress and general appear- 
