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CHAPTER XX. 



Journey from Thermaduddah to Alee-bakalee, general direction, 

 south by west, time marching, one hour. — May 1st. Journey 

 from Alee-bakalee to Hasanderah, general direction, south-west, 

 time marching, eight hours. — Dankalli naturalists. — Large herd 

 of cattle. Architectural labours. — Mahomedan popular super- 

 stitions. — Sale of children. — A Bedouin father. 



April 30th. — We left Thermaduddah this morning 

 by sunrise, making a short march to the south- 

 ward, across a narrow plain covered with grass, 

 and bordered by low banks of a stony character, 

 but, upon which, the myrrh, the mimosa, and 

 aditu trees, grew to a respectable size. The name 

 of our halting-place for the day was Alee-bakalee, 

 which appeared to be the name of a stream that 

 occasionally, at the time of the rains, flows to the 

 northward into the Killaloo Lake ; and the repre- 

 sentative of which, at this time, was the water I 

 bathed in yesterday, and which, I now recollected, 

 was called by the same name. 



For a little paper distributed to those I employed, 

 I soon had a small party of market-gardeners 

 collecting the " Hashish," the Arab name for the 

 green food of cattle (and which, the Bedouins of the 



