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ground with black stones; twenty-five miles, 

 Darur, a natural depression, said by some 

 Somalis to have been artificially deepened by a 

 race which inhabited the country before the 

 Somalis. These depressions are called harro 

 and the men report three similar ones from one 

 to two days to the East. 



In January the harro was dry; in March it 

 was a long stretch of water 400 by 200 feet, 

 about waist deep in centre. JSTo wells have been 

 dug here apparently because it is the border line 

 between the Habr Unis and Ogaden, and in 

 consequence of intertribal raids, karias seldom 

 camp near it. A well giving permanent water 

 could be dug at a small cost, good grass and 

 camel grazing. 



10th March. — Twenty -five miles, south. 

 Track passes through dense bush and high grass 

 with occasional open patches. At Ahamali very 

 dense thorn bush strip about four miles wide. 

 Road very winding on account of bush, no grass 

 in this patch ; ground undulating, good grazing 

 in plain. 



11th March. — Ahamali, across undulating, 

 open ground covered with grass ; said to be 



