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Adikai, and none of our men had to go and draw 

 any water at all. Some trifling present soon put tlie 

 women in the best of tempers, but I really do not 

 think they minded the water being taken from them 

 only they were terribly afraid lest their jars should 

 be broken. Most of them, when robbed, began 

 laughing and chaffing our servants. 



The next day we went on to the village of Azho, 

 and camped in the dry bed of a stream, in a field 

 where the Dargousa corn had just been cut. Our 

 camp was below a high plateau on which this large 

 village was built. It is the frontier village, and after 

 this you meet no more habitations till you come to 

 the province of Walkait, which would be from this 

 point about eight days' travelling on a mule. I had 

 gone on in front to fix the camp, and found some of 

 our donkeys, which we had sent on early in the morn- 

 ing, waiting for us there; by-and-by the whole caravan 

 came up, after which we enjoyed a very pleasant 

 swim in a little pool in the river. This is a luxury 

 which anybody travelling in a hot country will 

 thoroughly appreciate, as it is impossible to take a 

 bath with you while travelling in this sort of way ; and 

 we had to do most of our washing in a chillumchee.* 

 The young chief and some of his followers came and 

 begged some powder and bullets : we gave them some 



* Chillumchee is an Iiulian word for a flat-bottonicd tin basin. 



