Deathly stillness of the City on first morning of the Ramadan.--Rais weighing Gold.--The Gold Country.--Use of different Arabic terms in different Countries.--Insecurity of Merchants in The Desert.--Jews on the borders of The Sahara.--Sin not to Marry.--Wood in The Sahara.--Rais, a Marabout.--Sheikh of Slaves.--Complaints of the People to me.--Mr. Frederick Warrington.--M. Carette's _brochure_ on Saharan Commerce.--Trait of Tolerance.--Growing reputation of Said.--Preach anti-Slavery Doctrines in the Street of Slaves.--Ignorance of the People on Geography.--Talismans in Africa.--The Queen of England's Physic.--Rais's Desert Politics.--Increase of Patients.--Gradual method of obtaining Information.--Visit from a Touarick.--Tripoline Merchants have the Money of those in Ghadames.--Indifference of Mussulmans in reading The Bible. _4th._--WALKED out this morning and found no one in the streets; every body was still in bed, or shut up in their houses, being the first day of the Ramadan. A paralysis of death seemed to have stricken the city. Had no morning patients for the same reason. Afterwards, the servants of the Rais came to visit me and found me taking coffee; they gaped with full (empty?) open mouths, as if wondering I was not choked. I asked them if the Rais would take his tea. "It's unlawful," they screamed, and ran away as if Old Nick were after them. Usually make tea for the Governor every morning, which I send him in a glass, and sometimes also for the Sheikh Makouran. I could not help thanking God that I was born a Protestant, and professed a religion not in violence to the physical requirements of human nature, nor in contradiction to the plain sense of mankind. Man has evils enough to contend with, and to war against, without inflicting new and additional evils upon himself, like this most health-trying and health-destroying Ramadan. My turjeman confessed every body was mad in Ramadan. Whatever becomes of me in the deserts of Africa, I hope I shall have force of mind enough to maintain my religion intact.