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Thursday y 9th July. 
The caravan began its march at four in the morning 
in a N. E. direction, over the same desert. 
We halted at a quarter past eight at Catieh, a de- 
serted village, where there are a great many palm trees, 
and a well of drinkable water, near which the French 
built a fort that is already destroyed. 
We pursued our journey a^ half past three in an 
eastern direction. The nakedness of the sandy soil 
which we continued to traverse, was now and then 
relieved by some groups of palm trees. The caravan 
halted a little before seven o'clock, at a place called 
Abouneira, where there is a well. 
Friday 10th July. 
We resumed our march towards the east at f§ur 
o'clock in the morning, over the same soil; at nine we 
halted for some hours at Djenabel, where there is a well 
of bad water, similar to that of the other wells in this 
desert. W e there met a caravan from Gaza. 
We continued our journey at half past three in the 
afternoon, in the same direction; at four o'clock I dis- 
covered the Mediterranean sea at a short distance; as 
also several lakes formed by the sea water, and a great 
deal of moving sand. 
We encamped at seven o'clock at Aboudjelbana. 
Saturday, 11 th July. 
As there were already in the caravan many persons 
who had no water, and who began to murmur, we set 
out at two o'clock in the morning, in the same direc- 
tion, and over the same kind of country as on the pre- 
