ABSTRACT
The precaution became necessary from the increased number of people and camels, forming the great caravan, and the possibility that, from want of rain or other causes, the springs on the usual route might not afford sufficient water for so large a body. The messenger being ordered to use the utmost dispatch, returned on the twelfth day with the happy intelligence, that water was in plenty, and that he met with nothing to impede authors' journey. Accordingly, the 27th October was the day fixed for their departure from Augila, and party quitted the town the preceding evening, and encamped in the open air, to be among the first at the breaking up and movement of the caravan. Many of the inhabitants of Augila and Fallo, accompanied part of the way, and, as a mark of honour and attention, pranced their horses and fired their muskets round people.
