ABSTRACT
The Ght is a small town which has grown up in the territory of the Azgher Tuaricks, in consequence of the convenience of the place as a station for the caravans from Soudan Proper, and other points of Central Africa. Haj Ahmed, the governor, is a marabout, or saint, but is looked up to by the people for the settlement of all municipal concerns. The author and his companions were in all but seven days in Ght. He is fortunate in procuring a collection of dialogues and a vocabulary of most of the common words in the Tuarick dialect of the tribes in Ght. The author makes an arrangement with his friend Haj Ibrahim to forward to the British Government a small quantity of Soudan manufactures for the Exhibition of 1851; so that the industry and handicraft of the dusky children of Central Africa may be represented side by side with the finished works of Paris and London artisans.
