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TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA. 
CHAP. VI. 
are, nevertheless, peaceable and neighbourly towards each other. 
One or two whom I questioned, admitted that there was a great 
Spirit who, made them ; but laughed when I asked where he was 
to be found ? They imagine thunder and lightning to be produced 
by their deceased friends, and are therefore very fearful during a 
storm. They eat the blood of camels when baked over a fire ; and 
they also will eat animals which die a natural death. Lizari came 
and lodged with us ; we provided him with clothes, and made him 
as comfortable as we could. Neither he, nor any of the Ghrazzie, 
had for the last forty-two days tasted any other food than dates ; 
he was fat, however, and so were they all, which is a strong proof of 
the nutritious quality of that fruit. 
^lukni, who Avas very jealous of Lizari, and bore him great 
ill will, sent orders to certain people to murder him, by firing 
ball at him whilst at their evenings' diversions ; but his situation 
as a great man in Fezzan, and his excellent private character, had 
made him so respected, that those who had orders to kill him 
came and informed him of his danger, promising to defend rather 
than to injure him. He remained, however, in most unpleasant 
suspense, lest a second order should be more effectual. Even in our 
house, and in the same room with us, he slept with his pistols 
cocked under his head, and his sabre by his side. 
The people of Wajunga are much allied to the Tibboo in their 
habits, arms, &c. ; but the men have a way of plaiting their hair 
which is very remarkable, and in some it resembles the curling of a 
ram's horn, in size and shape. 
I saw this day a fine young Tibboo woman of Gatrone, who was 
inquiring amongst the Arabs if any one of them had a child to sell. 
She soon found one, whose mother had died on the road : it was 
about three weeks old, and miserably thin. As she wanted to suckle 
