Travels in the footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis

by Sir R. Lambert Playfair

[117]El-Bekri, trad. de Slane, p. 140.

[118]Marmol, trad. d’Ablancourt, ii. p. 437.

[119]Guérin, vol. ii. p. 22.

[120]This lake was surveyed by H.M.S. Beacon in 1845, and an excellent memoir on it published by Lieutenant (now Admiral) Spratt in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, xvi. 1846, p. 251.

[121]El-Edrisi, Geog. trad. Jaubert, i. p. 265.

[122]El-Bekri, trad. de Slane, p. 140.

[123]Spratt, l.c.

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CHAPTER XVII.

VISIT TO THE BEY AND GENERAL KHEIR-ED-DIN — DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING TRAVEL IN TUNIS — IMPROVEMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTRY — COMMENCEMENT OF BRUCE’S JOURNEY BY THE MEDJERDA — OUR START FOR SUSA BY SEA — SUSA.