Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara . THE sultans expedition. 241 interesting, and my stay in his camp at Tafiletallowed me to see much of both. First of all, in order that some idea of the sizeof the expedition which Mulai el Hassen led toTafilet may be obtained, let me begin by statingthat there were nearly 40,000 persons in his campat the time of my visit, including the members ofthe surrounding tribes who were attending the sov-ereign on his march through their country, andthis entire crowd was living under canvas
Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara . THE sultans expedition. 241 interesting, and my stay in his camp at Tafiletallowed me to see much of both. First of all, in order that some idea of the sizeof the expedition which Mulai el Hassen led toTafilet may be obtained, let me begin by statingthat there were nearly 40,000 persons in his campat the time of my visit, including the members ofthe surrounding tribes who were attending the sov-ereign on his march through their country, andthis entire crowd was living under canvas. But inorder that the manner in which the huge camp isarranged may be realised, it will be easier to com-mence with its pitching, which, as far as the groundallows, is regularly repeated upon every occasion—and at Tafilet the absolute level of the edge ofthe desert showed off the system to that all the baggage-animals carrying theimmense number of tents and quantities of baggagehave arrived at the spot chosen for the nightsencampment, the site where the Sultans enclosureis to be placed i
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