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CHAPTER X. 



Journey from Saggadarah. — Reach Bellad Hy, time marching, 

 four hours, general direction S.S.W. — Halt for the night. — 

 Journey to Ramudalee, time marching, seven hours, general 

 direction S.S.W. — Halt at Ramudalee to receive the visit of 

 Lohitu, chief of the Dehenee tribe. 



April 13th. — One hour before sunrise, I andOhmed 

 Medina, attended by the Hy Soumaulee, preceded 

 the Kafilah. Adam Burrah being too ill to accom- 

 pany us, having, as it was asserted, contracted my 

 illness of the preceding night by his endeavours to 

 relieve me, I left him my mule to ride. We con- 

 tinued our journey between low flat-topped ridges 

 of the same cuprous rock as during yesterday, till 

 we opened upon a little plain, with green sloping 

 banks on all sides, and evidently the head of the 

 small stream which, during the rains, ran along the 

 road we had come, and was called Bahr Saggadarah, 

 or the Saggadarah water. It was overgrown with 

 large and tall mimosa trees, and a singular rush- 

 like tree, with a thick trunk, the drooping leafless 

 branches of which reminded me very strongly of 

 the emu-tree of New Holland. 



From this wooded bottom, or flat, we began to 



