ABSTRACT
The author explains the desert assails the walls of Tripoli, and in half an hour my chaouch and Mohammed Souweea were in the Sahara sands, which here and there rise in great mounds. He should have liked to have pushed on to some considerable distance at once; but the habits of the country are dilatory, and one must conform to them. In a couple of hours we came to the chaouchs tent, where he had a wife, five children, and seven brothers, one of whom was blind. He, too, was to go through the sad ceremony of parting with his family; and he burst into tears when they surrounded and embraced him. however, that before this affecting scene was concluded, a quarrel had began between the blind man and the chaouchs wife, about two Tunisian piastres which were missing, she accusing him of theft and he indignantly repelling the charge.
