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cotton cloth folded into a triangular shape, and 

 soaking with ghee (the liquid butter of the 

 country) was worn as a head dress, and protection 

 from the sun. I should observe, that her hair was 

 plaited into innumerable small strings, similar to 

 the style of hair-dressing adopted by the women of 

 Gurahgee, and the slave-girls at Taj our ah. I am 

 not quite sure, but I think the hair is also dressed 

 in this manner by the Soumaulee and Galla 

 females. 



Her older friend wore a corresponding dress 

 and ornaments, but the girl had only the skin 

 petticoat, and held in her hand a pair of old 

 sandles, made very simply of a single strip of 

 ox-skin fitted to the shape of the sole of the foot 

 w 7 ith lappels on each side, to which were attached 

 the thongs which fastened them upon her feet. 



During our conversation with the new comers, 

 the camels, with Omah Suis, came up ; and his 

 mother without any difference of manner, as I 

 could perceive, performed the usual salutation, by 

 pressing the separate fingers of his hand succes- 

 sively, as she had done to the least known indi- 

 vidual of the group, and he seemed to be no more 

 affected by her presence, than if she had been a 

 stranger. 



In about an hour afterwards, we came to our 

 halting-place upon the gravelly plain- of Earau- 

 dalee, two or three miles beyond the bed of the 

 stream, and where it was determined that we 



