These races ceased with the arrival of Mukni, and parents now complain that their sons have no inducement to study.
All the houses are infested with multitudes of small ants, which destroyed all the animals which the party had preserved, and even penetrated into their boxes.

Their bite was very painful, and they were fond of coming into the blankets.

One singularity is worthy of remark in Fezzan, which is, that fleas are unknown there, and those of the inhabitants, who have not been on the sea-coast, cannot imagine what they are like.

Bugs are very numerous, and it is extraordinary that they are called by the same name as with us.

There is a species of them which is found in the sands, where the coffles are in the habit of stopping; they bite very sharply, and fix in numbers round the coronet of a horse; the animals thus tormented, often become so outrageous as to break their tethers.
There are several pools of stagnant salt water in the town, which it is conceived in a great measure promote the advance of the summer fever and agues.