[160]Doubtless Geläat es-Senan is here meant, the ancient citadel of the Harrars.
[161]If cedars ever existed in the Regency of Tunis, they certainly do not at the present day.
[162]Aleppo pine.
[163]It now belongs to Tunis.
[164]Both Shaw and Bruce identified Hydra with the ancient Thunodronum; but Sir Grenville Temple is certainly correct. He recognised it as the Ammædara of Ptolemy, the Admedera of the Itinerary, and the Ad Medera of the Tables of Peutinger, twenty-five miles north-east of Tebessa. The word Ammædara has since been found in inscriptions on the spot.
[165]Ostriches are now no longer found, save in the Sahara.
[166]Cervus Barbarus, still existing in the mountains of the Beni Salah in Algeria, where they are called Bukr el-Wahash, wild cows.
CHAPTER XXIII.
LEAVE SBEITLA — SBIBA — ER-RAHEIA — HAMADA OULAD AYAR — ARRIVAL AT MUKTHER.