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MERGE TO GYRENE. 
SO prevalent, that doubts were expressed whether I should be able 
to remove any one of those whom it had pleased Providence thus to 
punish for their sins. 
“ On the 6th, after our party had been joined by three mountain 
chiefs, Mahmoud, Abdallah, and Hadgi Alii, with twenty-five Janis- 
saries, and fifteen camels laden with water, barley, tents, &c., we pro- 
ceeded over a hilly and bare country to the southward. On the 7th 
we arrived at a well of bad water called Kanaphiz, in an open space 
nearly surrounded by the Lodz hills. We found a small Kaffle 
there from Fezzan, and purchased of the Moors a quantity of exqui- 
site Sockna dates, and some dried locusts. We were exceedingly 
tormented here by the numerous ticks that swarmed over the whole 
plain, and teazed alike both ourselves and our horses. On the 8th 
having passed the range of Souarat, we advanced through a pretty 
valley called Taaza, neglected, but evidently capable of improve- 
ment, from the luxuriant myrtle, lotus, juniper, cypress, and other 
plants, flourishing spontaneously. I also observed many trees 
called Talha, from which a gum exudes resembling that brought 
from the forests on the north-west of the Zaara ; and probably it is 
the same tree, for it is of stunted growth, with small brownish 
leaves, though its character is rather that of a rhamnus than a 
mimosa. 
“ In the evening we arrived at a brackish well of great depth called 
Zemzem, from having been blessed by a holy Marabut, and thence 
is derived the name of the whole Wadie, which running towards 
the north-east reaches the Syrtis below Turghar. Intending to 
