'2oO TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA. CIIAP. vi. 
100 horses came with Aleiwa, and 400 Arabs ; nearly 1000 camels, 
and many captives, had died on the road, besides children : the 
death of the latter was not included, as they were not considered 
of any importance. If a brutal Arab found a child in a plundered 
village, so young as to require milk, it was considered sufficient to 
try to keep the poor infant a day or two on dates and water mixed, 
and if it sickened, to throw it on the road side to die, or to be 
devoured by the jackals. A wretch of the Boowadie Arabs, endea- 
voured to laugh at an acknowledgment of his having followed this 
odious practice ; and he was much astonished at my driving him 
out of the house in consequence. 
I could not in any instance find that these cowardly ruffians 
ever dared to attack an armed man, whilst they inflicted every 
species of cruelty on invalids, old people, and children. Mohammed 
el Lizari, a friend of ours and a principal Mamluke of Fezzan, was 
the actual commander of this expedition, though Aleiwa was the 
nominal one. This man was so disgusted at the scenes which he 
had witnessed, that he determined never again to accompany the 
Ghrazzie ; indeed his having now done so was not with his own 
consent, but in consequence of an order from Mukni, which pre- 
cluded all possibility of refusal. The Ghrazzie had been six months 
absent, during which time they had overrun Bergoo (of the Tibboo), 
Wajunga, and the southern part of the Bahr el Ghazal. In Bergoo 
their sviccess was not great, as the Tibboo were warned of their 
approach, and had nimbly betaken themselves to their native 
fastnesses in the rocks. Afraid to follow them, these wretches made 
themselves amends by liring at the poor Negroes, well aware that 
they had no guns with which to defend or revenge themselves. On 
the return of these people through Tibesty, with which country 
Mukni is at peace, they endeavoured to take a few of the Tibboo 
camels (in a friendly way,) and for that purpose sent three of the 
