Saas to Marawa............................... 1 day. Marawa to El Homrie (so named after a celebrated Maraboot whose tomb is there) 1^ East. E l Homrie to Garinna................... 1 Garinna to Legbaiba...................... 1 Legbaiba to Derna......................... 1 Town. 7£ days: All these are watering places. Dema is a considerable town on the coast; it is walled, and has a large Mosque with sixty arches. From Tegerry to JBilma, according to recently arrived f r South. Tegerry to El Haat 1 day. E l Haat to Meshroo....... Meshroo to Tenei'a....... Teneia to El Wata . E l Wata to El Warr...... E l Warr to El Hammer 2 E l Hammer to Maffrus 2 Maffrus to Zhai................ 2 Zhai to El Mara..................... El Mara to Hatait el Dome.. Hatait to Uguira.................... Uguira to Kesbi..................... Kesbi to Shenumma............... Shenumma to Dirki................ Dirki to Bilma......................... the Account o f some Travellers om thence. Besting place. Well. Bocks. Besting place. A well. A welL A well. A well and domes. Well and domes. A well. Large town of Tibboo Kawar. Town. Large town. Large town. Very large town. Thus Tegerry to Bilma is 18 days of 8 or 9 hours. I found no one who knew of the salt lakes of Domboo, laid down in all the maps; but there is abundance of salt at Agram, (which is four days from Bilma west-south-west,) and a large lake, on the borders of which this article is collected. The Tuarick of Aghades go there, and carry away great quantities to Soudan. This agrees with the accounts of Domboo; and from the circumstance of the Tuarick going to Agram, and the position of that place, I am led to imagine it may be the same with Domboo, though under another appellation. The Tibboo immediately to the northward of Bornou are Wandela, Gunda, and Traita, which tribes are all mingled together. Tibesty is east of the Bornou road, and on the road to Waday. I here saw a woman who pretended to tell fortunes by examining the palm of the hand; which is the first instance of the kind I have met with. Belford considering himself quite unable to go to El Wiekh, whither I was about to proceed, I resolved on leaving him with the Knui and Barca, to recruit his strength, proposing to return about the sixth day. I went to the gardens to see the dome trees, and obtained a few of the domes, but they were not quite ripe. The trees, which I saw were considered by the natives as small ones, hpmg about twenty feet in height, and seven or eight in a cluster. I learnt that the fruit ripens in the spring about the same time as the corn. These trees have the trunk of the common palm, though covered with branches; and the domes grow from the sides, as well as the top o f the tree. The leaves are all curved, and being very thick, form a pretty head; they are of a light green; and along their edges, and from their tops, a fibre resembling long black hair hangs down. They all unite at about three inches from their common stalk. This tree is the palm of Bornou, the -Tibboo, and the Tuarick. - January 6th. Thermometer 4°; wind southerly.—It had been my
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