[69] May not the word beheim which in Arabic signifies cattle be here mistaken for the name of a place?
[70] About 300 miles south of Nun, 500 north of Tumbut, and 100 from the Ocean: it is evident that no point can fulfil all these conditions.
[71] Perhaps el-Quebly ال قبلي improperly pronounced; this word, signifying which is to the south, should, it is probable, be erased front the maps.
[72] For caravans moderately laden, see observations below.
[73] Toudeyni is at the distance of one day’s journey.
[74] There is reason to believe that the caravan rested several times during marches of more than twelve hours.
[75] El-Yabo a Berber town, is one day’s journey N. W. of Zenatyia.
[76] Afilé is near this place.
[77] I am not speaking of points more or less in the neighbourhood of the route, as Labé, or of the first part of the course of the Dhioliba.
[78] The lengths of the style and of the shadow were taken with cords, which have been brought back to France, and which I have measured with the utmost possible care, comparing them with a good copper metre.