94 REACH SEGALLO. 



a large skin-bag, which he tied up ready for loading 

 on the morrow, our start being announced by public 

 criers to take place next morning. 



March %\st. — Zaido and Allee being busy loading 

 the camels, I started with Ohmed Mahomed, and 

 my body-guard on foot, leaving my mule to follow. 

 Our road lay still along the sea-shore, the sand 

 having become more shingly than before, and 

 mixed with great quantities of broken shells, and 

 rolled pieces of red and madrapore coral. I took the 

 opportunity of bathing while the party I was with 

 performed their ablutions, and repeated the morning 

 prayers. 



This was a very short march, the halting-place, 

 Segallo, not being more than half an hour, or one 

 and a-half miles from Dulhull. Ohmed Mahomed 

 endeavoured to allay my disappointment by saying 

 we should start again at night ; but of course I did 

 not believe him. I remained in my hut, which was 

 made as usual, all day, not feeling very well ; in 

 the evening, however, I strolled from the low 

 jungle that here skirts the sea, and in which our 

 camp was made, to the beach, where I amused 

 myself observing some sea-gulls that exhibited no 

 little sagacity in the manner in which they obtained 

 their food. All along the Bay of Tajourah the 

 small hermit crab abounds, and formed, I should 

 suppose, from what I saw, the principal prey of 

 these birds. It would be a difficult thing to get at 

 this kind of Crustacea, with all the means that sea- 



