Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . CHAPTER VIII. A land of drought and of the shadow of death.— T EL-ARAWAN we stayed two days torefresh ourselves and our camels. It is amiserable town, composed of five hundredhuts, with walls of clay, and flat roofs ofbulrushes. It is a wretched spot, wherepeople may exist but never live. The Moors, who inhabitit, are fanatical Mahometans. It is in this place, that theremarkable French traveller, Caillie, was almost perse-cuted out of his life, although he was disguised as an Arab,and professed to be a follower
Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . CHAPTER VIII. A land of drought and of the shadow of death.— T EL-ARAWAN we stayed two days torefresh ourselves and our camels. It is amiserable town, composed of five hundredhuts, with walls of clay, and flat roofs ofbulrushes. It is a wretched spot, wherepeople may exist but never live. The Moors, who inhabitit, are fanatical Mahometans. It is in this place, that theremarkable French traveller, Caillie, was almost perse-cuted out of his life, although he was disguised as an Arab,and professed to be a follower of the false prophet. TheMoors have a number of negroes as domestic slaves, butas they seem to treat them with kindness, we did notfeel bound to interfere in this case. The Jew appeared to have much influence over thepeople in this fanatical village, nevertheless he advised usto have a detachment of men under arms, night and day,ready for action. DEATH IN THE DESERT. II3 On the second day, a violent East wind blew and ren-dered the heat insupportable. The air was filled withfine sand, which penetrated into every corner. Whilstthe storm l
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