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DESERT OF BAHIOUDA. 



wells, grouped, about twelve in number, at a spot called El-Mourath. 

 It is there only that the caravans can fill their ill-tanned leather- 

 bottles, in which the already nauseating liquid grows hot, and quickly 

 becomes putrid. Its stench and its taste are then so disgustful that 



the very camels reject it several times before they can constrain 

 themselves to drink of it. 



The Desert of Bahiouda, situated in about the same latitude as 

 that of Korosko, but on the other bank of the Nile, is of a less abso- 

 lute aridity and nakedness. Water is more abundant and less 

 brackish ; vegetation is less scanty ; and one meets on every side 



