Ch. viii. different Parts of Africa. 159 



" perished with hunger the year before; their 

 " wretched bones being all unburied and scat- 

 " tered upon the surface of the ground where the 

 " village formerly stood. We encamped among 

 " the bones of the dead; no space could be found 

 " free from them."* 



Of another town or village in his route he ob- 

 serves, " The strength of Teawa was 25 horse. 

 ' The rest of the inhabitants might be 1200 

 ' naked miserable and despicable Arabs, like 

 ' the rest of those which live in villages.**** Such 

 ' was the state of Teawa. Its consequence was 

 ' only to remain till the Daveina Arabs should 

 ' resolve to attack it, when its corn-fields being 

 ' burnt and destroyed in a night by a multitude 

 ' of horsemen, the bones of its inhabitants scat- 

 ' tered upon the earth would be all its remains, 

 ' like those of the miserable village of Gari- 

 ' gana."']" 



" There is no water between Teawa and Beyla. 

 ' Once Indedidema and a number of villages 

 ' were supplied with water from wells, and had 

 ' large crops of Indian corn sown about their 

 - possessions. The curse of that country, the 

 ' Daveina Arabs, have destroyed Indedidema 

 \ and all the villages about it ; filled up their 

 f wells, burnt their crops, and exposed all the in- 

 \ habitants to die by famine.";}: 



* Bruce, vol. iv. p. 349. 

 t III. p. 353. 

 J Id. p. 411. 



