CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER V. 
Departure for Tegerry, through Zuela and Gatrone — Ai'rival at Zaizow — Pass on to 
Traghan — Visit Gardens and Springs — Arrival at Zaitoon and Touela — Pass 
Villages of Masjhwa and Taleb — Arrival at Hamera — Illness — Leave Hamera — 
Bearings of its neighbouring Villages — Large Salt Plain — Arrival at Zuela — De- 
scription of Inhabitants — Author's Illness — Ancient Buildings — Hospitality of the 
Shreefs — Leave the Town — Arrival at Terboo — Its Wretchedness — Curious Story 
of Maraboot — Arrival at Mejdool — Journey across the Desert, and Arrival at 
Gatrone — Feast of Milood — Costume, Character, and general Description of the 
Tibboo — Description of Gatrone — Accounts of Tibesty and Waday, from a Tibboo 
Tradei' — Tibboo Language — Leave Gatrone in order to meet the Grazzie — El 
Bakkhi — Tibboo Manner of making Tar — Arrival at Tegerry . . . Page 202 
CHAPTER VI. 
Castle of Tegerry — Description of the Town — Some Accounts of the Desert of Bilma— 
Salt Lake of Agram — Ride out on the Desert — Leave Tegerry — Belford's dan- 
gerous State — Return to Gatrone — Arrival of the Grazzie, or Slave-hunters, witii 
many Captives and Camels — Account of their Excursion, and of Borgoo and Wa- 
junga — Manner of making Captives — Leave Gati'one in Company with the Grazzie 
— Mestoota — Reception at Deesa — Feast at Zaizow — Return to Morzouk — Go out 
to witness the Triumph of the Slave-hunters — Sultan's Reception of his Son — 
Remarks on Grazzles — Accounts of Slave-markets — Arrival of Aboo Becker, and 
Continuation of Mukni in Command — Further Accounts of the Countries of the 
Tibboo — Arrangements in the Sale of Slaves, so as to ensure the Sultan his 
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CHAPTER VII. 
OF FEZZAN. 
Aspect of the Country — State of Cultivation — Minerals — Animals — Birds — Vegetable 
Productions — Fruits — Esculents — Time and ]\fanner of cultivating Grain — Water 
— Towns — Food of Inhabitants — Possibility of impi'oving Agi'iculture — Tenure of 
Lands — Weights and Measures — Government — Principal People— Character of the 
