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spread upon the ground. The stores of the Kafilah 

 were piled around ; and at a little distance, in long 

 pyramidal ridges, raised upon a broad row of stones, 

 the bags of salt were heaped up, something in the 

 same way that cannon-balls are built into heaps in 

 a battery. 



April 14:th. — We left the halting ground of 

 Hy one hour before sunrise, and, much to my 

 gratification, suddenly exchanged the rough stony 

 plain for the dry sandy bed of an occasional wide 

 stream. Here, again, were abundance of the rush 

 willow as I termed it, though not belonging at all 

 to the genus salix, and also some mimosa trees ; but 

 I did not observe, that the doom palm was present, 

 nor did I see this tree again during my journey. 

 We did not long continue on this level and agree- 

 able road, but ascended a low acclivity covered 

 with large round volcanic stones, apparently de- 

 tached from the heights above. After a short 

 walk of about half-an-hour over this jutting head- 

 land, as it proved to be, we again descended into 

 the bed of the same stream, for by having taken 

 this direction, we had cut off an extensive curve in 

 its course. The dry channel of the stream now 

 widened considerably, in some places extending in 

 a long avenue, between two banks fringed with the 

 rush willow and mimosa trees ; whilst in others it 

 would suddenly contract, encroached upon by the 

 huge masses of detached rocks, which seemed con- 

 tinually to be falling from the edge of the lava 



