Crossword-Solution: GAFSA 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

NEFTA AND ITS FUTURE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS GAFSA AND JEBEL ORBATA ENTRANCE TO THE TERMID AT THE TERMID A STREET IN GAFSA HADRIAN'S INSCRIPTION THE LAST PALMS CAFÉ BY THE MULBERRY-TREE MY FRIEND SILENUS NATIVES OF GAFSA THE ROMAN WALL OLIVES IN THE OASIS TOZEUR AND ITS OASIS THE WATERS OF TOZEUR THE SHRINE ON THE CHOTT MARABOUT IN THE NEFTA GARDENS A BEGGAR _FOUNTAINS IN THE SAND_ _Chapter I_ _EN ROUTE_ Likely enough, I would not have remained in Gafsa more than a couple of days.

But there fell into my hands, by the way, a volume that deals exclusively with Gafsa--Pierre Bordereau's "La Capsa ancienne: La Gafsa moderne"--and, glancing over its pages as the train wound southwards along sterile river-beds and across dusty highlands, I became interested in this place of Gafsa, which seems to have had such a long and eventful history.

The book opens thus: _One must reach Gafsa by way of Sfax._ Undoubtedly, this was the right thing to do; all my fellow-travellers were agreed upon that point; leaving Sfax by a night train, you arrive at Gafsa in the early hours of the following morning.

The time-table marked a newly opened line of railway which runs directly inland from the port of Sousse; the distance to Gafsa seemed shorter; the country was no doubt new and interesting.

There was the station of Feriana, for instance, celebrated for its Roman antiquities and well worth a visit; I looked at the map and saw a broad road connecting this place with Gafsa; visions of an evening ride across the desert arose before my delighted imagination; instead of passing the night in an uncomfortable train, I should be already ensconced at a luxurious table d'hôte, and so to bed.