ern apron, there was a general rush upon it, and
some got a great deal and others none. Was not this a fine miniature
picture of mankind?

_24th._--En-Noor paid me a very early visit, and drank coffee. I heard
that a courier to Mourzuk would cost forty dollars. I begin to learn a
little Soudanese; there are some beautiful soft words in it. Yusuf says
there is no name for God in this language; but his statement requires
further examination.

From what we learn respecting Barth's reception at Aghadez, it would
appear that the people were disposed to look upon him with the same
complacency as they are wont to regard the pagans, or En-sara as they
call them, of Gouber and Maradee. Indeed, the Tanelkums and Kailouees
consider that we shall be well received by our brethren, the pagans of
Soudan.

Here is a most extraordinary trait of the barbarity of the Tibboos. It
often happens that they are out foraging for twenty days without finding
anything to eat. If they light upon the bones of a dead camel, they take
them and pound them to dust; this done, they bleed their own living
camels (maharees) from the eye, and of the blood and powdered bones they
make a paste, which they eat! This is somewhat analogous to what Bruce
relates of the Abyssinians cutting out beefsteaks from the rump of a
live bullock. The Tibboos possess the finest maharees; and the breed in
the rest of the Sahara is always being improved or kept up by a constant
supply from their country.

I continue to supply his highness En-Noor with either tea or coffee
every day. I sent him some early this morning. He is a greedy old dog,
and will not buy a loaf of sugar because I will not give it him at the
price of Mourzuk, and thus lose the freight. I hold out, and we have
sold him none for the present.

Overweg is making a small commercial lexicon of the things brought to
the market of Kanou: a most excellent idea. I myself intend, if I go to
Kanou, to make a list of all the things I find in the Souk, with some
account of their produce and mode of importation into that mart.

The great gong sounded throughout the village this afternoon, to give
note of preparation to all the people, that every one of the males must
be ready to leave this place in the course of three or four days. The
Sheikh says he is determined to leave in three days, whether the people
come from Aghadez or not. Yusuf laid before En-Noor this evening the
necessity of our sending a courier to Mou