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4. In 1805, a caravan proceeding om Timbuctoo to Ta let was disappointed in not nding water at one of the usual watering places, when, horrible to relate, the whole of the persons belonging to it, two thousand in number, besides one thousand eight hun­ dred camels, perished of thirst! Accidents of t is' C nature account r the vast quantity of human and1 other bones which are und heaped together in va- rious parts of the desert. }j
5. The llowing is the general route of the cara-
. vans in crossing the desert:-· Having left the city of Fez, the capital of Morocco, th proceed at the rate of three miles and a half an hour, and travel seven hours each day. In the space of eighteen days they reach Akka, where they remain a month, as this is the place of rendezvous, at which they are rmed into one grand, accumulated caravan. In proceed-1 P ing om Akka to Tagassa sixteen days are employ­ ed; and here again the caravan s ourns een days 1 to re esh the camels. It then directs its course to' the oasis or well of Tanderry, which is reached in l seven days; and after another stay of een days,! proceeds to Arawan, a watering place situated at a f 1 like distance. After having sojourned there fteen days, it sets out, and reaches Timbuctoo on the sixth 1 day, after having performed a journey of y d s 1 ofactualtravelling,andseventy- veofrepose; mak­ ing altogether, from Fez to Timbuctoo, one hundred, and twenty-nine days, or ur lunar months and nine : days.
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