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He has been of great use to me, and I shall remember him with pleasure. I had to-day a conversation with a Tibboo of Tibesty. How interesting it is to talk with the natives of those untrodden countries, to which chance may some day lead us! He says Tibesty is ten days from Gatroun, and fourteen from Mourzuk. It is all mountainous, except one long wady where the population is located.
There is no road direct eastward from Tibesty, but caravans can go south-east to Wadaï. The valley produces, besides other grain, a good quantity of ghaseb, which is the principal food of the inhabitants. Some palms rise here and there in clumps, but are not very productive; and dates are imported from Fezzan.
Sickness of Gagliuffi Baggage left at Mizdah Runthar Aga The Hospital Various Visits Arrival of the New Governor Animated Scene Correspondence Visit Mustapha Agha Bragging Sheikh Boro Tibboos of Tibesty Curious Country Presents to Turkish Functionaries A Woman divorced Haj Lameen Presents expected Brilliant Atmosphere Water-Melons The Gardens Winnowing Grain Houses of Salt Mud Nymphs of the Gardens Wells Presents to Functionaries Phrenology Queen's Birthday Walks in the Orchards and Gardens Corn-threshing Kingdom of Aheer Ass's Head A Wedding A Funeral Great Dinner Tibboos Prepare to depart The Pilgrim Caravan; its Privileges Tuat and the French Departure of Germans Wife of Es-Sfaxee An Arab Saying Letters Disease Arrival of Escort Eastern Consulates Business Hateetah The Son of Shafou Poor Sheikhs Hard Bargain.
A visit to this singular oasis might repay a hardy traveller; but the people of the country have a faithless character, and it would be dangerous to trust to their promises of protection. The Tibesty Tibboos must not be confounded with the Tibboos of the salt-mines of Bilma, who have recently made their submission to the Porte.
A Sultan rules paternally in this out-of-the-way country, where the Mohammedan religion reigns paramount. My informant made me pay three Tunisian piastres and two common handkerchiefs for a vocabulary of the language of the Tibboos of Tibesty.
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