of some of the spoil, but they refused to accept of gold tainted with blood; and, on the contrary, the avenging spirits of justice pelted him with pieces of rock till he died. He was fairly stoned to death, and his bruised and broken carcase was left unburied, a horror to all passers-by! We see the Genii are a moral people, and in general the Mussulmans of The Sahara speak of them as a good sort of folks, not unlike Puck and his merry crew, only playing occasionally mischievous pranks upon silly inconsiderate mortals. Beyond the Kesar Jenoun stretches away north and south the long range of black basaltic mountains, called by our people Wareerat, but I am not sure if this be the Touarick name. This ridge forms the boundaries of the Tibboo and Touarick country, for it stretches as far or farther south than the Tibboos, some fifteen or twenty days' journey. From the town of Ghat to the base of this range is half a day, eastward, although the range looks, by the ordinary delusion of Desert optics, to be close upon the town. FOOTNOTES: [64] "Slow and sure," has in no case whatever so good an application as to the progress of the camel's march. [65] These were evidently Ouweek's spies. They certainly did not accost me in that frank manner as the Touaricks had been wont in Ghadames. [66] "Without my permission," or literally "tearing the _Litham_ from my face." _El-Lithām_--‮اللثام‬--is the bandage which all the Touaricks wear around the face, covering every part of it except the top of the cheek-bones and the eyes. [67] The houlee, ‮حولي‬, is the same as the heik, and the _jibbah_, ‮جبّه‬, is a huge frock or tobe, with short sleeves, and coming up close round the neck. [68] On these words of Shakespear, "_Kept by a Devil_," (King Henry VI., Part II., Act 4, and Scene 3,) Steevens makes the following annotation:--"It was anciently supposed, and is still a vulgar superstition of the East, that mines, containing precious metals, were guarded by evil spirits." So in _Certaine Secrete Wonders of Nature_, by Edward Fenton, 1569, "There appeare at this day many strange visions and wicked spirites in the metal mines of the Greate Turke. In the mine at Anneburg was a metal sprite which killed twelve workmen; the same causing the rest to forsake the myne, albeit it was very riche."