280 FRAGMENTS SO continually disturb the peace of society, retaliation is considered an incumbent duty on every individual who may have lost a relation, so that the embers of hostility are thus incessantly fanned ; and this lamentable revenge pervades whole clans, to the utter destruction of every humane and philanthropic propensity, converting the human race to a degradation below the beasts of the field.

Policy of the Servants of the Emperor, The Bashaws, and others holding responsible situations in the empire, are continually purchasing a good name and good report at court, by courtesy to and by feeing the ministers of the Emperor to report favourably of them, whenever opportunity may offer. Incredible sums are sometimes expended in this way.

El " Wah El Grarbee, or the Western Oasis.

The prince, Muley Abd Salam, elder brother of the reigning Emperor, Muley Soliman, purchased, on his return from the pilgrimage to Mecca, a domain in (Santariah '') the Oasis of Ammon In the Lybian Desert there are three Wahs (or Oasiscs, as we call them) : the greater, called El Wah El Kabeer ; the lesser, called El Wah Segrer ; and the Oasis of Ammon, called El Wah El Grarhie, i. e. the Wah of the West.

<- The Wah of the West is also called by the Mograbines Santariah,