^3.8 Major Renneirs Ohservatlonson the Geograpliy 
about a thousand goats, (besides as many sheep, and 500 or COO 
camels), which goats could only keep up with the camels when 
they had sufficient food ; that camels travel only at the rate of., 
English miles per hour ; it is probable that 2 or might 
be the rate of march, since the slowest goers must of necessity 
regulate it It must also be taken into the account, that near^ 
ly two^thirds of the way was not sandy ^ and therefore not so 
well suited to the feet of the camels, a great number of whom 
were loaded. No halts are spoken of, (except the three in the 
wood, on an extraordinary occasion) ; and it appears probable, 
that their daily marches were so short, as to enable them to per- 
severe, without incurring such a degree of fatigue as would iU’- 
duce the necessity of frequent halts. 
Perhaps, then, their rate was below that of great armies, 
which has been calculated at a mean, on marches of long con- 
tinuance, at about 14 J British miles on ordinary roads ; and 
when reduced to direct distance and geographic miles, at about 
10| each day. Perhaps, in this case, 10 may be amply suffi- 
cient. 
This report of the general direction of the line of the route, 
cannot be expected to be more accurate than that of the dis- 
tance, perhaps less so. The sun, however, would furnish him 
with a good mark, mornings and etenings, if he made allow- 
ance for its great declination at that season ; for it was about the 
month of June when they set out. At their outset, it is said 
that their route was a little to the southward of east, and gra-^ 
dually inclined more to the south as they advanced, which is 
as clear as could be expected. If, then, we suppose a curve of 
this kind, it will terminate in the direction of the Lake Dihhie 
of Mr Park, and will not even err very widely in point of dis- 
tance, considering that the geographical construction on both 
sides is made up of calculations on very extended lines of dis^ 
iance ; for the place of the Dibbie Lake rests on its proportion 
of the distance^ reported to Mr Park, between his lowest stations 
on the NigiH', and Tomhuctoo ; whilst this latter is placed by the 
meeting of lines of distance from Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli ; 
^ The sheep, appears, travel faster than tlie goats in that quarter. 
