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Marias and Maddalenas you find them everywhere. Why, my own mamma is Maddalena, and my wife is Maria, and so is my sister." "Exactly. And your name? I want it, so that when next I take a boat here I can ask for yours." "Fabiano, Signore, Lari Fabiano, and my boat is the Stella del Mare." "Thank you, Fabiano." Artois put a lira into his hand. "I shall take the Star of the Sea very soon."
Previously to their arrival at Lari, they came upon two encampments of the Traita Tibboos, calling themselves the sheik's people; their huts were not numerous, but very regularly built in a square, with a space left in the north and south faces of the quadrangle, for the use of the cattle. The huts were entirely of mats, which excluding the sun, yet admitted both the light and the air.
On the 4th February, 1823, the caravan reached Lari, a town on the northern boundary of Bornou, in lat. 14 degrees 40 minutes N. The inhabitants, astonished at the size of the "kafila," fled in terror at its approach.
At length they reached Lari, in the province of Kanem, the most northern part of Bornou, a place containing two thousand inhabitants, who dwell in huts constructed of rushes, with conical tops.
Another and much larger nest of the Traitas, lay to the east of their course, a little further on, with numerous flocks and herds. About two in the afternoon, they arrived at Lari, ten miles distant from Mittimee.
The town of Lari stands on an eminence, and may probably contain two thousand inhabitants. The huts are built of the rush which grows by the side of the lake, have conical tops, and look very like well-thatched stacks of corn in England. They have neat enclosures round them, made with fences of the same reed, and passages leading to them like labyrinths.
She had reached the steps now near the Savoy Hotel. A happy-looking boatman, with hazel eyes and a sensitive mouth, hailed her from the water. It was Fabiano Lari, to whom Artois had once spoken, waiting for custom in his boat the Stella del Mare. Hermione was attracted to the man, as Artois had been, and she resolved to find out from him, if possible, where Ruffo's mother lived.
On quitting Lari, they immediately plunged into a thickly-planted forest of acacias, with high underwood, and at the distance of only a few hundred yards from the town, they came upon large heaps of elephants' dung, forming hillocks three or four feet in height, and marks of their footsteps; the tracks of these animals increased as they proceeded.
Hermione was outside in the street, hearing the cries of ambulant sellers, the calls of women and children, the tinkling bells and the rumble of the trams, and the voice of Fabiano Lari speaking was it to her? "Signora, did you see him?" "Yes." "He is glad to be out of prison. He is gay, but he looks wicked." She did not understand what he meant.
On leaving Lari, the appearance of the country changed completely. The sandy desert was succeeded by a clay soil, clothed with grass and dotted with acacias and other trees of various species, amongst which grazed herds of antelopes, whilst Guinea fowls and the turtle-doves of Barbary flew hither and thither above them.
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