CHAP. IX. 
RETURN TO TRIPOLI. 
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CHAPTER IX. 
Leave Sockna — Stop at Hammam — Well of Temedd — Sufferings of the Slaves — Arrive 
at Bonjem — Danger on the Desert — Zemzem — Sofageen — Storm in the Mountains 
— See two Roman Ruins — Arrive at Zleetun — Description of that Place — Leave 
Zleetun — Visit Lebida — Illness — Arrival at Tripoli — Account of the Negroes of the 
Kaffle — General Notices of the Desert — Belfoi'd's bad State of Health — Departure 
from Tripoli — Pass Quarantine at Leghorn — Return over the Continent to Eng- 
land, N 
Friday, 3rd of March. — Hadge Mohammed brought a poor 
girl to me for advice. She was very feverish and Ught-headed, and 
complained of excessive pain in the chest, for vs^hich I bled and gave 
her some coohng medicine. At seven we proceeded, having filled 
water for three days, the well immediately before us being unfit to 
drink; our road lay over a gravelly plain. At 12. 15. mountains 
closed in from the left to those on the right, which at the distance 
of half a mile ran parallel to our road ; they were of yeUow lime- 
stone and sand, and all table-topped. We passed along a Wadey 
closely bounded by mountains, until two, when we stopped for my 
patient, who had lagged behind ; her unfeeling master, contrary to 
my earnest request, having suffered her to walk, while he lazily rode 
a camel. She arrived in about an hour, very weak, and in much 
pain ; and would have been beaten, had I not interposed. I gave 
her some cotton impregnated with lemon-juice, to steep in water, 
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