[244]Poiret, i. p. 238.
[246]Ibn Khaldoun, trad. de Slane, ii. p. 134.
[247]Mrs. Broughton, Six Years in Algiers, from 1806 to 1812, p. 429.
PART III.
CHAPTER XXXII.
BRUCE’S ROUTE FROM TEBESSA TO THE DJERID AND BACK TO TUNIS.
In the third part of Bruce’s wanderings, from Tebessa southward through the Belad el-Djerid, and thence to Tripoli and the Pentapolis, I have been unable to follow personally in his footsteps. I must content myself with giving the journey in his own words, and trust to the observations of others to illustrate his rough and fragmentary notes. It is almost an injury to his reputation to reproduce what was never intended for publication, notes which, in the event of his death during the journey, he had particularly requested should not be published. The reader is requested never to lose sight of the probability that all his fairly copied manuscripts were lost during his shipwreck, and that the present narrative is compiled from the roughest memoranda, letters to his friends, and the autobiographical sketch which he has left, written years afterwards in the retirement of Kinnaird, when the particulars of this journey had been to some extent effaced from his recollection by many years of more stirring events in Abyssinia.
In the first part of this work, page 103, his arrival for the second time at Tebessa was recorded on December 16, 1765; he continues:—