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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 19 November 1909
[See Introduction to The Vision and the Voice for background information] [Map of Crowley's travel through Algeria]
I left on the 19th for Arba [modern day el-Arba or L'arba] by tramway. There we dined and walked uphill through magnificent gorges—better by night than by day. 21 km to Sakamody, sleeping on the way in 3 separate bivouacs. Everything green was very wet and the night quite cold.
Arrived at Sakamody, 8:30 A.M. I ordered breakfast and while waiting invented a machine for word-counting.
It is strapped to the hand, the dial by an elastic round the knuckles, the contact by a ring for the finger-nail. The counting mechanism is adapted from any machine of the sort in which a single tap sends forward the pointer one stroke.
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