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is the common Barjee of Indian bazaars, and 

 Ohmed Medina was quite right therefore in the 

 statement he made of its being a favourite food of 

 the Banyans, and it indicated no little observation 

 on his part, to have noticed that circumstance. 



Garahmee to-day left us to pay a short visit to 

 his family, who lived in a kraal some miles to the 

 north, in the direction of Owssa. As he expected 

 a present upon the occasion, I gave him a couple 

 of coloured handkerchiefs for his two wives. It is 

 very seldom that a Dankalli Bedouin has more 

 than one help-mate.; but Garahmee, making great 

 pretensions to a godly life, like a pious Mahomedan, 

 had added another wife to his establishment. The 

 precepts of his religion being so far practised, his 

 virtue was rewarded, by the profit arising from 

 the sale of his more numerous offspring ; having 

 just been to Tajourah, to conclude a bargain for his 

 youngest and only remaining daughter. He had 

 on previous occasions disposed of two elder ones, 

 and before he left Herhowlee, he came to me again 

 and offered for three dollars, to bring me the 

 daughter of some friend who, he said, had one to 

 dispose of, but I have no doubt, he intended to 

 steal the girl, had I consented to the business. 



To-day I witnessed a very interesting proof of 

 the great similarity between the climate and 

 physical character of this country, and that through 

 which Moses led the Israelites in their flight from 

 Egypt. About noon, a sudden stir among the 



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