* AND ANECDOTES.

' S93 Travelling in Barbary, It is extremely difficult, whilst travelling in this country, to ascertain from the natives the distance of any (douar) encampment of Arabs ; the general answer to such a question is (wahud saa)y "an hour," but this is a very indefinite term, being used for a distance from two to twelve miles, or more ; therefore, as these people have no definite notions of time or distance, the only way of ascertaining distances, is by knowing the rate at which the caravan goes, which is a regular pace, and consulting your watch j by this means, the distance of any journey, however long, may be accurately ascertained.

Anecdote displaying the African Character and showing them to be now what they were ancientlyy under Jugurtha.

A Muhamedan was sent to prison, for having killed a man j and after remaining there some time, it was expected that the Emperor's order would come to have him shot, or to have his right hand cut off, with which it was presumed he killed his enemy. A friend of the prisoner, willing to liberate him, that he might escape the punishment that awaited him, engaged a person well acquainted with the prison to procure his enlargement ; accordingly he promised him a sum of u3