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CHAPTER XI. 



Staying at Ramudalee. — Himyah and his matchlock. — Chase of 

 a hyaena. — Visitors from the Debenee tribe. — Guinea-fowl 

 shooting. — Ahkeem shooting. — Arrival of Lohitu, Chief of the 

 Debenee. — April 17th, leave Ramudalee for the valley of 

 Gobard, general direction S.W., time occupied on the journey 

 six hours. 



April \bth. — There was some rain a few hours 

 before sunrise, and however grateful it might be to 

 thirsty nature in this scorched-up country, I felt 

 very uncomfortable myself, for it came soaking 

 through my carpet-roof, and I awoke in a state of 

 WTetchedness that no physical misfortune, except 

 actual bodily injury, could have occasioned; but 

 lying in a heavy rain upon the bare earth, or, what 

 is worse, upon wet palm-leaves, (for my mats con- 

 sisted of nothing else,) was but miserable accom- 

 modation for an invalid traveller. 



The sun rising, however, put a stop to the 

 descent of the rain, and by nine o'clock the camp 

 was all comfortably dry again, so rapidly, in this 

 country, is the water either absorbed by the arid 

 soil or evaporated by the sun. 



Ohmed Medina, and a sporting character who 



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