ABSTRACT
The Pashalic of Fezzan, although it occupies a considerable space upon the map advancing like a peninsula from the line of Barbary countries into the Sahara is in reality a very insignificant province. Immense deserts, sometimes perfectly arid, but at others slightly sprinkled with herbage, separate these valleys; and are periodically traversed by caravans, great and small, which in the course of time have covered the country with a perfect network of tracks. Fezzan is divided into ten districts, of which the principal is El-Hofrah, containing the capital, Mourzuk, and several smaller towns. It is here and there besprinkled with beautiful gardens, in which are cultivated, besides the date-palm, several of the choicest fruits that grow on the coastas figs, grapes, peaches, pomegranates, and melons. In these gardens, as in most of the oases of the desert, the-fruit trees that require most protection from the sun are planted between the palms, which make a kind of roof with their long leaves.
