96 LEAVE FOR DADDAHUE. 



had been broken, during the short march from 

 Dulhull, by falling from the back of the camel. I 

 was requested to put them to rights, as driving nails 

 was what the Dankalli did not understand. My 

 carpentering amused them very much ; and the job 

 being settled to their satisfaction, I adjourned to 

 my hut and turned in for the night. 



April 1st. — We were up very early this morning, 

 at least one hour before sunrise, and all started 

 together for Daddahue, or Wadalissan, two dif- 

 ferent names that were given me for the next halt. 

 I was desired to keep with the Kafilah, for fear of 

 our being attacked, and also informed that it would 

 be near mid-day before we should arrive at the 

 encamping ground. 



Our first hour's march lay along the sea-shore, 

 which was of the same character as yesterday, but 

 I observed great quantities of sponge washed high 

 upon the beach, and picked up some very good 

 specimens. Pebbles of a beautiful opaline chalce- 

 dony were very common, and with the coral and 

 rich pearly shells of some large bivalve, would have 

 been sufficient foundation for an imaginative fancy 

 to have here described a very bright pavement of 

 fairy land. 



Leaving the sea-coast, we entered a narrow gully, 

 or dry bed of a stream, overhung by a thick jungle of 

 different kinds of shrubs and bushes. The road thus 

 naturally formed, was most wretched to travel upon, 

 being strewed with blocks of black lava, of all shapes 



