A stage of twenty miles, over a barren plain of gravel, leads to another, but inconsiderable town, called Timen-hint.

On the next day but one, they reached Sebha, a mud-walled town, picturesquely situated on rising ground, surrounded with its palm groves, in the midst of a dreary, desert plain; it has a high, square, white-washed minaret to its principal mosque.

At this place, Captain Lyon remarked a change of colour in the population, the people being mulattoes.

Two marches more led to Ghroodwa, a miserable collection of mud huts, containing about fifty people, who appeared a ragged drunken set, as the immense number of tapped palms testified.

From the ruins of some large mud edifices, this place seems once to have been of more importance.