[4] Bernard d'Attanoux participated in 1893 in the commercial mission led by Gaston Méry from Algeria towards the Sudan.

[7] The French members were Méry, Attanoux, Albert Bonnel de Mézières(fr), and two White Fathers, Augustin Hacquard and François Ménoret.

He shot a guide in the arm during an argument, and killed his interpreter's dog after it refused a command to attack a gazelle.

[9] Méry suffered the relapse from an illness he had contracted earlier in the year, left the expedition and returned to France.

With a companion named Moulai, from Rhadamès, and two camels he followed the trail of the Attanoux mission which he rejoined at Ain-Taieba.

This was in a rainy period, and the rains in the preceding weeks had overwhelmed the wadis and turned the plain into a vast swamp.

[12] Bernard could not approach the lake very closely, and set up his camp a few kilometers to the southwest at the mouth of the Wadi Timatouiet.

[1] Later in 1895 the Algerian Arab interpreter Djebari claimed that survivors from the Flatters expedition were still being held prisoner by the Tuaregs at the oasis of Taoua.