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CHAPTER XIII. 



Leave Gobard for Arabderah. — View of Lake Abhibhad from the 

 ridge of San-karl. — General direction of march south, time 

 occupied two and a half hours. — March to Saggagahdah, general 

 direction S.W., time marching an horn* and a half. — Meet 

 Kafilah of Mahomed Allee. — Halt for the night. 



April 18th. — We were on our march again by sun- 

 rise, Lohitu accompanying the party of the non-inte- 

 rested in the care of the camels, and who generally 

 preceded them half-an-hour. Of this party, Ohmed 

 Medina had assumed the leadership from the first 

 day of his having joined, and I took care always to 

 accompany him. We made a short bend towards 

 the south, along a narrow water cut channel, dark 

 from the trees on every side closing their tops over 

 our heads, and then ascended diagonally the steep, 

 loose, stony face of the ridge of San-karl, forming 

 the southern bank of the valley of Gobard. 

 Having reached the top, Lohitu stopped suddenly 

 to inform me that this height was the general place 

 of assembly for all the tribes of the Dankalli, when 

 combined in some military operation, against the 

 Issah Soumaulee to the east, or the Assa-hemerah 

 Muditu to the west. We were continuing our journey 



