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TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA. 
CHAP. V. 
every five minutes at the dead wood, and caused me extreme pain. 
This httle stripe of sand was never above a mile in breadth, and 
sometimes ceased altogether in a gravelly desert. We observed 
several locusts flying about. At 6. 30. arrived at Tegerry, the 
southern hmit of Fezzan, and obtained a tolerably good house; 
indeed, the only whole one in the place, built within a space sur- 
rounded by the walls of the ancient castle. Here we procured good 
stabling for our horses, and were free from interruption. No one 
could come to stare at us, and we were able to shut the castle gate 
in due form at night. 
We made south 55° west, fourteen miles. No news had arrived 
of the Ghrazzie. 
