Chapter 2

Start from the Masheeah--Painful Parting--Chaouch's Tent--A Family Quarrel--Wady Majeeneen--A Rainy Day--Moknee's Wives--Two mad Fellows--Great Ascent of Gharian--Tedious Day's Work--The Castle--View over the Country--Garrison--Troglodytes--Turkish Tax-gathering--Quarrelsome Servants--Proceed over the lofty Plain--Underground Villages--Kaleebah--The Batoum--Geology--A Slave Caravan--Cheerful Blacks--Rows--Oasis of Mizdah--Double Village--Intestine Discords--Interview with the Sheikh Omer--A Pocket Province--A Dream of Good Omen--Quarrels on Quarrels--Character of Fezzanees--A Leopard abroad.