Leave Seloufeeat--"City of Marabouts"--Fair Promises--People of Aheer--Aspect of the Country--Extraordinary Reports--A Flying Saint--Prophecies--A Present--Expense of our forced Passage--Hopes--Fears--The Marabouts--Geology--The coming down of the Wady--Inundation--Restoration of our Camels--Maharees from En-Noor--El-Fadeea--Arab Tuaricks--Maghata--Picturesque Wady--Rainy Season--Another Flood--Dangerous Position--Kailouees and Blacks--The Escort arrives--The Marabout Population--Reported Brigands--The Walad Suleiman--Pleasant Valley--Escort leave us--Difficulty of satisfying them--Robbery--Proceed to Tintalous--Encampment--The Sultan--A Speech--We wait in vain for Supper--Want of Food. CHAPTER XVI. Promises of the Sultan--Yellow-painted Women--Presents--Anecdotes--Prepare to visit En-Noor--Our Reception--Dialogue--Seeming Liberality of the Sultan--Greediness of his People--No Provisions to be got--Fat Women--Nephew of the Sultan--Tanelkum Beggars--Weather--A Divorced Lady--Aheer Money--Our Camels again stolen--Account of the Tanelkums--Huckster Women--Aheer Landscape--Various Causes of Annoyance--No News of the Camels--Anecdote of my Servants--Storms--Revolution in the Desert--Name of the Country--Dr. Overweg--Money and Tin--Saharan Signs--Habits of the Rain--Burial of a Woman--Demands of Es-Sfaxee--Salt-cakes of Bilma--People of Tintalous--Wild Animals--List of Towns and Villages--Population of Aheer and Ghât. CHAPTER XVII. Zinder Caravan--Negress playing "Boree"--Curious Scene--Objects of Barter--Fresh Annoyances--Remarks on our Reception in Aheer--En-Noor--Asoudee--Better News--Fresh Extortions--En-Noor disappoints us--Europeans taken for Spies--Things in demand at Aheer--Exercise--Overweg's Patients--Wild Animals in Aheer--Kailouees in dry Weather--Robbing a Prince--Ghaseb and Ghafouley--Aheer Cheese--Mokhlah Bou Yeldee--Our Wealth noised abroad--Alarm at Night--A fresh Attack--Saïd's Gallantry--Disorderly Protectors--Thirteen Robbers--Amankee--Loss of my Tea--Country of Thieves. CHAPTER XVIII. We shift our Encampment--En-Noor's Circular--The Kadi's Decision--No Progress in the Sahara--Aghadez Gumruk--Scorpions--Election of Sultans in Aheer--Present of Salutation--Paying for finding lost Property--Courier from the new Sultan--No Presents sent us--Notes on Denham--A Bornouese Measure--Intended Razzia--Firing off Gunpowder--Hypotheses of Danger--Dress and Women--Enroute to Bilma--Soudan Caravan--Visit from Tintaghoda--Aheer Honey--Modes of Measurement--Power of En-Noor--Visits to him from great People--Stations on the Bilma Road--Salt-Trade--Account of our Pursuers at Tajetterat--Costume of the Kailouees--Their Weapons--Poisoned Arrows--Charms--Female Dress--Names of Articles of Costume--Character of Kailouees. CHAPTER XIX.