ting geological excursion.

We are to remove a little further to the west, to a valley more
convenient than this for pitching tents, and under some shelter. We
still hope we shall not be obliged to await the return of the
salt-caravan from Bilma (that is, a month, or forty days) before we
start. Probably, when good news comes from the camp in the west we shall
go on. It will be a sad trial for our patience to wait so long, after
having already dallied more than two months in Tintalous.

_7th._--The thermometer at sunrise stood at 51 deg.--very cold. There are no
signs yet of Zangheema's starting to Damerghou. The people, when sitting
over the fire in the evening, relate jocosely that the jackals, not
being able to come near the flame, and nevertheless feeling the cold
very much, hold up their fore-paws, in a sitting or squatting position,
in imitation of men, towards the fire, be they at ever so great a
distance, and so screw up their imaginations to the belief that they are
warming themselves. The language of gesticulation and signs, by the
movement of different parts of the body, is quite a study in this part
of the world. The most singular gesticulation, and yet the most
significant, is that by which a person begs a thing. He holds the object
in one hand (the left) before the owner, then gives the right hand and
arm a swing round, and at last places the right hand to his bosom--the
meaning of all which is, that he seeks to ascertain if the owner has any
other article of the same description as that which he holds in his left
hand, and whether he is willing to give it to him. When a Kailouee says
a thing is good, he puts the forefinger of his right hand into the
clasped palm of his left, and so, as he pronounces the thing good,
_nagari_, he turns his imprisoned finger round within the closed left
hand. When he says there are many persons, he clasps together the
fingers of his left hand, and forms a good English fist, holding the
hand thumb upwards. He then strikes, with the palm of his right hand,
the fist of his left hand, held in that particular position. This sign
also represents a more indelicate idea, and is used in the same way on
the coast.

The women, from the shepherdess to the princess, of Tintalous, are as
fond of the bustle as European dames; but the important difference is,
it is the natural bustle which they here delight to exhibit to the
admiring male population. If a woman be called to, going off to