TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA. 
CHAP. V. 
information. " In Tibesty there is a large spring of hot water, 
which appears to boil as if over a fire. The soil in which this 
spring is situated is composed entirely of sulphur, in many places 
quite pure. The water is drank medicinally by the natives, as well 
as strangers who go purposely from other countries to drink it. 
In taste it is acid." This man affirmed, " that all blind people, on 
washing their eyes with the water in question, are restored to siglit ; 
Avhile aU sores and rheumatic pains are completely cured by it." 
In short, according to his account, its properties are most wonder- 
ful. The existence of such a bed of sulphur and spring water may 
throw some interesting hght on the idea that the mountains of 
Tibesty are of volcanic origin. 
To Waday the road from the Tibboo Borgoo is thus : 
South-east by south. 
Borgoo to Kermedy 2 days, a well. 
Kermedy to BokaUa 2 days, a well. 
Bokaha to Boushasheem... 2 days, a large lake during the 
rainy season. 
Boushasheem to Kharma... 2 days, a weB. 
South. 
Kharma to Sobboo 2 days, a town of Tibboo. 
Sobboo to Emharaije 1 day, a to\^Ti in Waday. 
Emharaije to Kermedy 2 days, a town. 
Kermedy to Wara 2 hours. This is the principal 
town of Waday, and is the residence of the Sultan. 
My informer had never seen Fittre, but described it as a large 
lake, fuU of fish, which is dried and salted, and sent to great 
distances for sale. He did not know of any river communicating 
with it. 
