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Wro7n Tcherkin to Hor-Cacamoot^ in Ras el Fee! — Account of it' — Tran*' 



adlions there. 



ON the 15th of January, at a quarter pafl eight in the 

 morning, we left Tchcrkin, and entered immediately 

 into thick woods ; but proceeded very flowly, the road 

 being bad and unknown, if it could be called a road, and 

 our camels overloaded About an hour afterwards we palled 

 a fmall village of elephant hunters on our right, and our 

 courfe was itraight north, through dark thick woods, over- 

 grown with long grafs, till at half an hour pail ten we 

 =came to another fmall village clofe on our right. We then 

 turned N. W. and continued in that diredion, pafling feve- 

 ral villages, all of elephant hunters, and mollly Mahome- 

 tans. At three quarters after twelve we came to a fmall 

 4-ivcr which runs \V. N. W. and falls into the Germa ; here 

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