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 THE TUNNEL-LIKE STREETS OF TOUGGOURT

next day and continued to realize all the way back to civilization. We talk of the lasting impressions of travel. I thoroughly believe in them. We were urged to undertake this excursion to Temaçin by friends of the Great Marabout who holds his court there in the Zaouia of his fathers. Word had been sent to him that two infidel wonder-workers were on their way to prove their powers in his august presence. Herrmann the Great about to appear at court before the Akound of Swat or the Rajah of Paralakimidi, was never more anxious about the result of a performance than were we as we coursed over the smooth stretches of desert sand or filed between the wind-created hillocks on our way to