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TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA. 
CHAP. Ill, 
accounts, and which proved to be only mud tombs, or remains of old 
houses- From Morzouk to this place is about forty days' journey. 
West. 
In Fezzan 
1 day. Town and old castle. 
Town. 
2 
Resting place. 
4 
do. 
6 
do. 
Bengheh to Doukaraat 
do. 
5 
do. 
Tadera to Amaghi 
7 
do. 
Amaghi to Temadraati 
3 
do. 
Temadraati to Houhaned... 
H 
do. 
Houhaned to Oonabraghri.. 
4 
do. 
Oonabraghri to Ain el Sala.. 
2 
Town in Tuat. 
Between Tadera and Amaghi is a desert, which is travelled 
eight days without water. All the road is sand without any other 
vegetation than a few occasional shrubs, from Morzouk to Ain el 
Sala, which is the northern town in Tuat, and the first reached 
by all the Kaffles from the coast of IVIorocco. Tafilet is ten days 
north-west of it. Tombuctoo, or Tembuctoo, is fifty days from 
Ain el Sala, and the road is entirely over a desert. The first place 
from Ain el Sala is Akably, a very large town, which is two days. 
From thence to Mabrook is thirty-five days : this place is so 
called from its being the custom for those who have passed the 
Desert to rest and refresh there, each congratulating the other on 
having safely arrived over their perilous road, by the usual salutation 
of " Mabrook," which signifies joy or happiness. Hence to Tem- 
buctoo is fifteen days. Ghadams, belonging to the Bashaw of 
Tripoli, is twenty days north-north-west of Ain el Sala. 
Tembuctoo is about 90 days' journey from Morzouk, and the 
