Note 17 — FAS TO TIMBUCTOO,

Footnote 17: (return) From Fas to Tafilelt, 20 days, for 11 ducats per camel. Tafilelt to Draha, 6 do. 6 do. do. Draha to Timbuctoo, 48 do. 18-1/2 do. do. --- ---- 69 days, for 35-1/2 ducats per camel load, which is about the rate of one farthing per quintal per mile. This does not include the expense of camels for the conveyance of merchants, servants, &c. or of provisions or water, but merely of those carrying goods. A full account of these caravans, and their mode of crossing the Sahara, will be found in Jackson's Marocco, ch. 13.