246’ WIDE AND INHOSPITABLE BEsEKTS. 
of ihc Sahara, like islands in the ocean. i^' 
watering-places to the men, as h-cII as to 1^^' ^ 
and repleni.sh the hardy anti patient camel. 
of the.se cultivated spots, the car.avan .sojounrs f !^' 
days, and then proceeds on its journey, ’it''', 
another spot of the same description. In ilsc 
ionhiies, the hot wind.s, denoniina 
are often 
oxhale. the water carried in skin.s by 
snujti 
SO violent, as co’.t.siderablv, it not <- ('d, 
can”'''’. ' 
the 
i 5 .su of the passengers and drivers. < hi thc.sO oCt 
aliirme ' 
tVcqnentl 
■twenty dollars are 
bahiiion has occurred, 
licula 
In 1S0.5, a caravan proceeaing irom 
';ifi!et, was disappointed in not finding water a’ 

t!ie passengers ana anvers. > ni tnese , ,j,s- 
ed by the Arabs, tlwt five hundred dolh’i’’ 
'iitly gii'cn for a draught of waiiT, ant^ 'j.'ra'''',. 
y dollars are comnioiily paid, when f 
>11 has occurred. I'licse scorching wiiidji '' 
iilarly clesci'.bed, in treating qf atmospherical 
In 1S0.5, a caravan proceeding from 
u',na! watering-places, when, horrible to 
of the ])ersoiis belonging to it, two thousand ' 
' eight hundred caiiielS; 
beside one thousand 
thirst! Accidents of this nature, account 
quantities of human and other bones -wliith 
fof ‘:'V 
heaped together in various parts of the desert. 
The following is the general route of the 
crossing the desert. Having left the city 
capital of Morocco, they proceed at the 
miles and a half an hour, and travel seven 
flay. In the space of eighteen days they 
where they remain a month, as this i.s the r , .yj 
dezvous at which they are formed into one gt".,, 
lilted carat'an. In proceeding from Akka 
1 \ 3 o.Yoin. .f yj 
sixteen days are employed; and here again, 
soiourtiS fifteen days to refresh the canids. 
1, nw.idcu.'’ 1 tfj' 
its course to the oasis and w ell of Taudeu.'’ fj 
leaclied in seven days ; and, after another 
day.s, proceeds to Arawaii, a watering-place, 
like distance. After having sojourned there ^.,0 
it sets OUT., and reaches Tombuctoo on the siS ^ 
liaving performed a journey of fifty-four ^ jilicO 
travdhng, and .scveniy-five of rcpo.se, niukinS’^^^.fiw 
from Fez to Tombuctoo, one IimidieJ i>nn 
days, ov four lunar months and nine days. 
