CHAP. V. 
JOURNEY TO ZUELA. 
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ceeding in the first place to Zuela aU^^ in the east, and from thence 
passing the desert to Gatrone ^^^^15 and Tegerry t^^' in the south. 
I persuaded Belford, who always entered into my views, to try what 
change of air would do for him as well as for myself, and he agreed 
to accompany me, although we more resembled two men going to 
the grave, than fit persons to travel over strange countries. Yussuf 
ben el Hadge Khaleel kindly lent us his little boy, Barea, who was 
to act as our servant, and to lead our camel. 
On the 14th we set out, having received a Teskera from the 
Sultan, on all the villages through which we might pass, so as that 
ourselves and animals might be fed. I also had an order for the 
Kaid of Zaizow ^ jjkj and the brother of the Kaid of Traghan i.^^Js 
to accompany us : but it was not until 1 . 50. P.M. that we were 
able to get away. We were weak and helpless ; and the Arabs, 
according to custom, gave us so much trouble, by their officiousness, 
that the poor camel and our horses were loaded and unloaded a 
dozen times at least. At 2. 50. we passed a small nest of huts on 
our left, named Mangelly ^Jj^ having another village to the south 
of it, about one mile distant, called Glirowat • At 4. after 
crossing a sandy plain, we came to a little village in the gardens of 
Hadge Hajeel Jj^.^ where we found our friend, Mohammed, 
measuring and burying the Sultan's dates. The heap he was em- 
ployed on was about twelve feet in height, and thirty in length, 
and had all been collected in the immediate neighbourhood. Mo- 
hammed gladly left his work ; and having ordered some Lackbi to 
be brought, and a fowl or two to be seized upon, carried us to the 
hut he was hving in. 
W e proceeded this day E. and by S. about seven miles. — Mo- 
hammed made us welcome in the evening, and brought a fifer and 
two bagpipers to stun us, while the women of the village, to do us 
honour, beat tin-pots, singing, and dancing before us. 
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