[Footnote 56: Here follows a singular story, the principal incident of which, however, can scarcely be adapted to European reading.] [Footnote 57: I suppose he means “capable of bearing arms.” He had not previously mentioned that there were any Tibboos with him, except the family of Ahmed.] [Footnote 58: I have given the Sheikh’s account of the incidents of this journey in some detail—although his geographical information is wonderfully meagre—because I think it is the only record we have of personal observation in that desert. What he says of the manners of the Tibboos agrees well with other accounts.] [Footnote 59: The Sheikh is prejudiced against Fezzan, which, however, is not a very delightful oasis. Besides, he was impatient to reach his own country; and nothing appears so disagreeable as the vestibule of a house you are anxious to enter, if you are kept long waiting.] [Footnote 60: This tribe was subsequently driven into the Saharah, and forced to retreat as far as the borders of Soudan, where its turbulent and marauding disposition engaged it in constant quarrels with its black neighbours. It was nearly exterminated in 1851.] [Footnote 61: The Sheikh seems to have understood pretty well the character of the Bedawins, who are, in fact, a set of coarse barbarians, with some few fine qualities, which sound very well when spoken of in poetry or romance, apart from the vulgar and repulsive realities of their ordinary existence.] Transcriber's note: pg x Changed: Story of Passon to: Passion pg 27 Changed: Story of Passon to: Passion pg 33 Added period after: the Kaliph, Abou-Bekr footnote 18 (pg 109) Changed: a woman tood behind to: stood pg 135 Changed: what is call the narrah to: called pg 168 Changed: Ab-el-Kerim to: Abd-el-Kerim pg 249 Changed: Spina Celtica to: Spica pg 263 Changed: a frightful punish- was to: punishment pg 309 Changed: many soldie to: soldiers Other spelling inconsistencies have been left unchanged.