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he seemed to admit this with reluctance ; but after 

 I had told him, as he said, a great deal more than 

 he knew previously, and now learnt for the first 

 time, that differences in the knowledge of the Ma- 

 homedan religion, had been the occasion of their 

 modern separation ; he then confessed, that even at 

 the present day, the division between the Dankalli 

 and Soumaulee Bedouin tribes was scarcely recog- 

 nisable. To illustrate this remark, he informed 

 me, that a great portion of the Issah Soumaulee 

 acknowledged Lohitu as their Chief, and bore the 

 Debenee mark upon their breasts. This was the 

 reason that the man belonging to the Issah, I had 

 seen yesterday speaking to Lohitu, bore that 

 symbol, or arms of the tribe as it may be called, 

 and for which I could not before account. Ohmed 

 Medina went on to say, that my friends the Hy 

 Soumaulee were " Affah," as much so, as the other 

 Dankalli, and that the half of the Wahama tribe, 

 to which Mahomed Allee belonged, were actually 

 Issah Soumaulee. This last observation also 

 assisted me to explain a plea urged by the Sultaun 

 of Tajourah to exclude this obnoxious person from 

 that town, it being asserted whilst I was there 

 that he was an Issah Soumaulee, and consequently 

 ought to take his Kafilah to Zeila. 



After a short journey of three hours we arrived 

 at Ahmahguloff, a halting-place in the plain, 

 exactly similar to the one of yesterday. The same 

 narrow tract covered with stones which had fallen 



