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vellers, we prepared all our arms, and having a large fire in front 
of us, we lay down very snugly in our Bornouses. Our fears were, 
however, groundless, nothing disturbing us but the wild rats in their 
foraging expeditions. 
January 2nd. Thermometer 1° 40', which was the lowest we 
had yet seen in Fezzan ; we were, however, taught to expect ice 
before the winter should pass. The ground we had gone over since 
leaving Gatrone was a narrow stripe of three or four miles, and 
sometimes only half a mile in breadth, bounded on either side by 
the desert, from which it was only distinguishable by being here 
and there able to produce a miserable dwarf thorn bush, i ,-; v ,\ 
Our camel had disappeared in the night, and we were all in 
confusion, searching for him in different directions, and doubting 
whether he had been stolen by the Tibboo, or had strayed on the 
desert, either of which events would have been equally unhappy 
for us. 
A severe attack of hemma prevented my joining the party 
which had gone out in search of the camel, and at two the driver 
returned with the animal. We learnt that he had tracked the 
fugitive back to Medroosa, in the gardens of which place he was 
wandering, probably to look for the Maherry, to which he was much 
attached. The skill of the Arabs is really extraordinary in tracking 
their animals over plains covered with the feet-marks of other camels 
and men. 
We soon set out, and from a rising ground observed that the 
desert was skirted by distant hills from north-east to south. Ther- 
mometer 25°. An old castle, called Gusser Hallem, bore south 50° 
west. At 3. 15. we passed it: our road was very uneven, the 
ground being covered with little hummocks bearing small bushes. 
My horse, which felt no compassion for my liver complaint, started 
