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Updated: September 11, 2025
"If it was a fezzan I shouldn't bring it to you." "Why not? I should like to stuff it." "Daresay you would, my lad, but if I did that, somebody would stuff me." "Ha, ha!" laughed Mercer. "You'd look well in a glass case, Magg." "Shouldn't look well in prison," said the man, laughing. "Why, what'd become o' the Doctor's taters?" "Oh, bother the taters. I say, what about that gun, Magg?"
On the fourth day after his departure, he reached Lebida, on the sea coast, the Leptis Magna of the Romans. He found, on his arrival at Mescerata, that he should not be able to procure the number of camels necessary to convey his goods to Fezzan; and was obliged to abandon his enterprize.
The boundaries of Ghat and Fezzan are determined by two conspicuous objects, first, by a chain of mountains running north-east and south-west, joining the oases of Fezzan on the north, and extending to the Tibboo towns on the south, the eastern side of all which chain is claimed by the masters of Fezzan, the western by the Touaricks of Ghat; and secondly the forests of tholh trees, which are now appearing in our north, affording abundant wood to the people of the caravan, and browsing for the camels.
Again, it is quite possible that the Phoenicians of Memphis designed and organised the caravans which, proceeding from Egyptian Thebes, traversed Africa from east to west along the line of the "Salt Hills," by way of Ammon, Augila, Fezzan, and the Tuarik country to Mount Atlas. We can scarcely imagine the Egyptians showing so much enterprise.
This is true Fezzan scenery. The mirage and all its illusions cloaked the plain in various directions, as if seeking to hide its dull uniformity. However, this desolate region has really been of late visited by rain, as we had been told. We encamped towards evening near a great standing pool, which, if the weather remain moderate, will supply the caravans for months to come.
Although Clapperton had advised Lander to join an Arab caravan for Fezzan, the latter, fearing that his papers and journals might be taken from him, resolved to go back to the coast. On the 3rd May Lander at last left Sackatoo en route for Kano.
Style of making Bazeen. Mode of Encamping. Cold Day, felt by all the Caravan. Well of Teenabunda. Arrival in The Wady of Fezzan. Meeting of the two Slave Caravans. Tombs of Ancient Christians. Routes between Ghat and Fezzan. Weariness of Saharan Travel. Oases and Palms of The Wady. We meet a rude Sheikh, demanding Custom-Dues. Haj Ibrahim's opinion of the Virgin Mary. Black Jews in Central Africa.
Overweg in his character of medical man, and made a long harangue to Yusuf, the substance of which was, that inasmuch as we had come from Constantinople, from Tripoli, from Fezzan, from Ghât, in peace and safety, why should he think of eating us up and destroying us, like the people of Taghajeet and others? "No; let the Christians rest in peace. I will now protect them let them not fear.
The streets through which we had to pass were narrow, dirty, and wretched-looking, and did not give one at all the idea of belonging to a town enriched by the commerce of Fezzan and of Central Africa, of which commerce Tripoli is the chief emporium.
But these cavaliers are nothing comparable to the crack horsemen of Morocco. Their horses are in a miserable condition, and they themselves ride badly. The horse does not do well in the Saharan oases. In Fezzan he is often obliged to be fed on dates, which are both heating and relaxing to the animal. A troop of females were at the heels of the animal loo-looing.
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