ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing to Wilmot Horton, and to Hanmer Warrington. Gordon Laing had Ieft Tuat on 9 January so, the Ahaggar joined the caravan on the 20th and made their attack on the 25th. But people know from Laing's letter of 26/27 January that as late as the 27th the Ahaggar had not yet arrived though they were expected shortly. The attack seems to have taken place early in February. To get to Muktar's Laing must have had to cover not less than 400 miles, a truly astonishing achievement for so grievously wounded a man. Wadi Ahennet, where the attack took place, cannot be identified precisely, but it presumably lay in the district of Ahennet, which lies about 150 miles south of Tuat. Disturbed at the dispatches from Laing being held up so unaccountably, and at the continued absence of any reliable information about him, he sought an audience of the Bashaw.
