Ghardaia, or, Ninety days among the B'ni Mozab : adventures in the oasis of the desert of Sahara / by G. Naphegyi.

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Date:
1871
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Credit: Ghardaia, or, Ninety days among the B'ni Mozab : adventures in the oasis of the desert of Sahara / by G. Naphegyi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cunib. We moved on in silence, every one filled with gloomy forebodings, until, by the position of the sun in the heavens, we knew that it was mid- day. On our right were high sand-hills; and towards these my father led us, his idea being to rest a short time in the shade at their base and afterwards to climb to the top of one of them and obtain a more extended view of the country. After a weary march of an hour, we reached the hills; and we found the shelter from the sun's scorching rays exceedingly grateful. As to my father, he seemed endued with supernatural strength; for, with an activity which would have done credit to a much younger man, he clambered u]3 one of the hills, to endeavor if possible to dis- cern some landmark by which we might conjecture our whereabouts, or some trace of our missing companions. We followed his motions with eager eyes, expecting every moment to hear the wel- come exclamation, •' There they are! But no such joy was in store for us. He gazed intently towards every quarter of the horizon, until at last the glare of the sand dazzled his eyes so that he was compelled to refrain. Then, waving his hand, to give us to understand that he was about to try his fortune on another and a higher elevation, he descended the hill on the farther side. It was not without a certain feeling of dismay that we thus lost him from our view; for, besides the feeling of desolateness that at once overcame us, we feared