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Overweg made an excursion to the Ghât mountains, or rather the smaller hills or offshoots from the range. He found them sandstone, but very singularly formed or broken into huge blocks some like the masses which I saw on the route from Ghadamez to Ghât, with a very narrow base, on which they might turn as on a pivot. 11th. We stopped here another day.
Approach Ghât Description of the Town The Oasis Reminiscences of a former Visit Azgher Tuaricks The Governor Political Authority The Sheikhs Protection of Strangers The Litham Business Reception Meetings of Sheikhs Disputes Tax on liberated Slaves Extortion practised on us Discussion on the Treaty Scramble for Presents Haj Ahmed disinterested Hateetah plays double More Presents and further Annoyances Mahommed Kafa Escort of Kailouees A Visit from Ouweek and the Bandit of Ghadamez Observations on the Treaty Collection of Dialogues The Great Exhibition.
How tantalising to be obliged to advance thus by short stages towards an ambuscade! We take things pretty philosophically, however, and make geological observations. I think I must have passed a great number of rocks of the same kind between Ghadamez and Ghât. To the eye of an ordinary observer, some of them have the same aspect as sandstone, or even limestone.
He smiled graciously on seeing his old friend of Ghadamez, and shook me by the hand; he also recognised the Germans, having seen them at Zaweeah, near Tripoli. Satisfied with this little interview, we drew aside, and the procession moved towards the gate. There was instantly a rush of the Arab horsemen, every one trying to get in front; and as the entry was narrow an obstruction soon took place.
I do not recollect that this ceremony was ever before performed in the desert, in Bornou or Soudan, although the union-jack certainly now flies at Mourzuk and Ghadamez, on the roofs of the consular houses. Now I pray God that our great troubles may be over in Aheer little troubles we must always encounter, and bear with fortitude.
Some large springs are continually overflowing with bubbles of gas, like the great well of Ghadamez. In the garden-fields of Edree are cultivated wheat and barley, the former white and of the finest quality. A good deal of grain has already been got in this year. With industry, and a few more animals to draw the water for irrigation, a great quantity of wheat might be grown in this oasis.
On the road to Tuat from Algeria, or to Ghadamez from Tunis and Tripoli, or to Fezzan from Bonjem or Benioleed, there is no traverse of six days comparable in difficulty to that which we have just accomplished. There is said to be none other like it on the road to Soudan, except a tremendous desert between Ghât and Aheer. However, we must not trouble ourselves about this as yet.
The wells are like those of Ghadamez, that is to say, an upright beam with a long cross-pole, having a stone at one end and a rope and bucket at the other, serves to bring up the water. We found here a caravan about to proceed direct to Mourzuk, and I seized the opportunity to write by it to Government and to my wife.
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