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tunity of taking him to task, for giving me the slip 

 at Arabderah, for I now perceived, that what I 

 heard in that place of him and Garahmee returning 

 to Gobard, was a fiction of convenience, to avoid 

 any importunity on my part to accompany them. 

 Ohmed Mahomed, in a better humour than 

 I expected, after my morning's speech to Lohitu in 

 favour of Mahomed Allee, came and sat with me 

 an hour or two, endeavouring to convince me 

 that he had done everything for the best, and 

 that Mahomed Allee was a great scoundrel. He 

 also attempted to give me some information respect- 

 ing Owssa and Hurrah, the latter being a celebrated 

 city, once the capital of the large kingdom of Adea, 

 situated about four days' journey directly to the 

 south. Owssa, also, it should have been observed 

 before, was formerly the seat of the Government 

 of the kingdom of Adal, but for the last three 

 centuries, these former Amahra or Abyssinian 

 monarchical divisions of the country of Adjem, 

 Adea, and Adal, have given way to the more 

 numerous subdivisions required by the system of 

 patriarchal authority, which alone is recognised 

 among the present barbarous Dankalli occupants. 

 Ohmed Mahomed failed to enlighten me, on the 

 subject of the relative geographical position, of 

 these still important emporiums of the produce of 

 this country, for unfortunately he did not possess, 

 like Ohmed Medina, that generalizing talent of 

 taking, as it were, a bird's-eye view of the inter- 



