| Presents, en route, to various chiefs | 13 | dollars. |
| Wheat and bread | 5 | " |
| Olive-oil and semen (liquid butter) | 1 | " |
| Extras and unforseen expenses | 3 | " |
| —— | ||
| Total | 22 | |
| —— |
This, I imagine, is about what it would cost him himself, though he pretended to allow a little more for me. These 22 dollars are to carry a person two months over Sahara and one over Negroland to Kanou. It will be seen there is nothing down for meat, or sugar, and tea and coffee, in which luxuries Saharan merchants rarely indulge.
Footnotes:
[1] Sunbul—سنبل—(literally "stalks"). According to French Oriental botanists, it is "Nard, spina celtica." An immense quantity of this fashionable plant is brought into The Desert. No present is made to a man of family without sunbul.
[2] Nor are they Anthropoklephts, as a late Yankee Consul, in his "Notes on North Africa," &c., calls them. Before Mr. Hodgson stigmatizes the Touaricks as men-stealers, he should see that his own States are pure. The reader will agree with me, after hearing further of the Touaricks, that these free sons of The Sahara have every right to say to Mr. Hodgson, and all American Consuls—"Physician, heal thyself: do not charge us with men-stealing when you buy and sell and rob human beings of their liberty."
[3] I speak on the authority of Mr. Gagliuffi, our Vice-Consul at Mourzuk.
[4] And even those who take an oath of et ceteras at the National Universities! And others who subscribe to creeds which they do not read, or if read them, do not comprehend them.
[5] That is, being on friendly terms with you.
[6] See Surat ii., intitled "The Cow."