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CONTENTS. 
Money — Accompany the Sultan's Son to Hoon and Wadan, to receive the Taxes 
— Account of those Places — Return to Sockna — Leave Sockna — Singular Custom 
imposed on Travellers in passing the Soudah Mountains — Arrival at Nufdai — 
Clear the Soudah Mountains — And travel over the gravelly Plain, through the 
Pass of Kenair, to the Well of Om el Abeed — Visit the Towns of Zeighan and 
Samnoo, famed for their Maraboots — Encamp at Temenhint — Arrival at Sebha, 
where the Black Population commences — Pass on to Ghroodwa — Entry to Wor- 
zouk, the Capital of Fezzan Page 58 
CHAPTER III. 
ARRIVAL AT MORZOUK. 
Mode of travelling across the Desert — Interview with the Sultan — Description of Mor- 
zouk — Population — Castle of the Sultan — Illness and severe Distress of the Author 
and his Companions — Arrival of a Kaffle of Tuarick — Fast of Rhamadan — De- 
parture of an Expedition to obtain Slaves from the Country of Borgoo — Diseases 
of the Inhabitants, and the Native Methods of Cure — Feast of Aidel Shraya — Ob- 
servations on the Tuarick — Their Religion, Dress, Customs, and Language — Ghraat 
— Its Government, Laws, and Trade — Tiiarket there — AiTival of a Kaffle from Bor- 
nou with Slaves — Information respecting Bornou and the surrounding Countries, 
as collected from the Traders — Of Kashna and Soudan, in general — Account of 
, Hornemann and his Death — Tembuctoo — General Remarks on the Geography of 
the Interior, and probable Course of the Niger — Vocabulary of the Fellatta Lan- 
guage — Conjectures on the Fate of Park S9 
CHAPTER IV. 
Articles of Commerce between Fezzan and the Interior, as well as to Egypt, Bornou, 
and Waday — Gonja — Description of Ghadams — Benewaleed and Eenewazeed — 
Reports of a Successor to Mukni — His Illness — Gardens— Costumes of the Na- 
tives — Their Amusements — Visits to the Sultan's Family — Celebration of the 
Feast of Aid el Kebire — Sickness and Sufferings of the Author and his Com- 
panions — Education of the Children of Morzouk — Revenues of the Sultan of Fez- 
zan — Illness and lamented Death of Mr. Ritchie — His Funeral — Determination 
of the Author to penetrate to the Southward of Morzouk . ...... 152 
