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fire our large Ihip-blunderbufs, with fifty fmall bullets in itj. 

 among the buflies, in the direction of the road-fide ; bua 

 we neither faw nor heard any thing of thofe people there^ 

 after, if there really were any, nor did I, at the time, indeed, 

 believe the camel- driver had feen any one but through the 

 medium of his own fears ; for the Arabs never attack you 

 till near fun-fet, if they are doubtful of their own fuperio- 

 rity, or at dawn of day, if they think they have the advan-- 

 tage, that they may have time to purfue you. 



We, however, all continued on foot, from four till the 

 grey of the morning of the 19th of xA.pril. Indeed, fo vio-. 

 lent an inclination to fleep had fallen upon me, that I was 

 forced to walk, for fear of breaking my neck by a fall from 

 my camel, till eight o'clock, when we halted in a wood of 

 ebony buflies, growing like the birch tree in many fhoots 

 from the old ftems, which had been cut down for fear of 

 harbouring the fly, and totally deprived of their leaves af- 

 terwards, by the burning of grafs, from the fame reafon. 

 This place is called Abou Jehaarat, and is the limit between, 

 the government of Teawa and Beyla. After fuch a very fa- 

 tiguing journey, we reiled at Abou Jehaarat till the after-^ . 

 noon. The fun was very hot, but fortunately ibme flicp- . 

 herds caves were dug in the bank, and to thefe we fled for 

 fhelter from the intenfe heat of the fun, where the ebony 

 trees, though in a. very thick wood, could aflbrd us no fliade^ . 

 for the reafons already given. 



At three o'clock in the afternoon we fet oat from 

 Abou Jehaarat, in a diredion wefl-, and at eight in the 

 evening we arrived at Beyla. There is no water her 

 twe:;n Teawa and Beyla. Once, Imgededema,,and a number 



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