CHAP. II. 
JOURNEY TO MORZOUK. 
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April 3rd. — We journeyed all this day over a stony plain, without 
the least sign of vegetation, and covered with small stones, of about 
the size and form of lumps of sugar ; their surfaces appeared vitri- 
fied, and shone very much. In the evening, we got into a wadey 
where we found a well, and several talhh trees, so that we had 
abundance of fuel. We heard, during the night, repeated cries of 
jackals and hyaenas. Made this day, S.E. twenty-eight miles. 
April 4th. — A t seven A. M. went on over a barren plain, having 
no water ; but were enabled to collect a few bushes for our night's 
cooking. At sunset secured our baggage, and lay in a gravelly 
flat. Jackals very noisy. Proceeded S.E. twenty-eight miles. 
April 5th. — Barren plain as before. At two P. M. ascended a 
steep hiU, from which, in every direction, the country appeared 
quite desolate ; — found a few bushes on the top. On descending, at 
sunset, we pitched our tents, having travelled thirty-five miles, S.E. 
April 6th. — At six A.M. we started, and passed over the wadeys 
Hait cu^Jo^, and Zemzem ^j^j ; each having a few prickly bushes, on 
which our camels fed. The latter is of great length, and runs to 
the sea, in the Gulf of Syrtis. 
At 1, SO, having passed a plain, where we found gypsum, and 
in some places, cockle-shells, we reached some sand hills to the 
well of Bonjem ; the water of which resembles, both in taste 
and smell, bilge water from a ship. It hes in a stratum of black 
clay, about five feet below the sand. At the distance of half a mile 
from the well, is a Koman castle, situated amongst some high sand 
hills : it is of an oblong form, having in the centre of each of the 
walls, which are towards the cardinal points, a large arched gateway, 
between two strong towers. Each of the former, with its flanking 
towers, is in a different style of architecture : only one remains 
quite perfect ; the others have faUen, or are partially buried in the 
sand. The stones of which these buildings are composed, are of 
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