CHAP. VI. 
TEGERRY. 
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I found no one who knew of the salt lakes of Domboo, laid 
down in all the maps ; but there is abundance of salt at Agram, 
(which is four days from Bilma west-south-west,) and a large lake, 
on the borders of which this article is collected. The Tuarick of 
Aghades go there, and carry away great quantities to Soudan. This 
agrees with the accounts of Domboo ; and from the circumstance 
of the Tuarick going to Agram, and the position of that place, I am 
led to imagine it may be the same with Domboo, though under 
another appellation. The Tibboo immediately to the northward of 
Bornou are Wandela, Gunda, and Traita, which tribes are all mingled 
together. Tibesty is east of the Bornou road, and on the road to 
Waday. I here saw a woman who pretended to tell fortunes by 
examining the palm of the hand ; which is the first instance of the 
kind I have met with. 
Belford considering himself quite unable to go to El Wiekh, 
whither I was about to proceed, I resolved on leaving him with the 
Kaid and Barca, to recruit his strength, proposing to return about 
the sixth day. I went to the gardens to see the dome trees, and 
obtained a few of the domes, but they were not quite ripe. The 
trees, which I saw were considered by the natives as small ones, 
being about twenty feet in height, and seven or eight in a cluster. 
I learnt that the fruit ripens in the spring about the same time as 
the corn. These trees have the trunk of the common palm, though 
covered with branches ; and the domes grow from the sides, as well 
as the top of the tree. The leaves are all curved, and being very 
thick, form a pretty head ; they are of a light green ; and along 
their edges, and from their tops, a fibre resembling long black hair 
hangs down. They all unite at about three inches from their 
common stalk. This tree is the palm of Bornou, the Tibboo, and 
the Tuarick. 
January 6th. Thermometer 4'' ; wind southerly. — It had been my 
