CHAP. VI. 
MORZOUK. 
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greatly feared, would cause him to be privately murdered before I 
left Morzouk. In the meantime it was considered necessary that 
he and his household should be always armed ; and as I did not 
quite understand Mukni's behaviour to myself, I also determined 
to be on my guard, constantly concealing a pair of pistols in my 
dress. We found great difficulty in procuring camels, the Arabs, 
who let them, being busily occupied in the slave-markets. Some 
Kaffles at this time came in from Soudan and Bornou, bringing 
about 1000 slaves, chiefly female. 
As I am now about to leave Morzouk, and have been enabled 
from actual observation in my journey to the extremity of Fezzan 
to form an opinion of that kingdom, I shall subjoin all the informa- 
tion I have been able to collect on its general state, as well as the 
habits and customs of the natives. 
