440 HITTOO GALLA WOMEN. 



composing our army decided upon remaining here 

 to-day, whether the tribe we were among would 

 like it or not ; especially as the next three marches 

 would be long and forced ones across the country 

 of the Hittoo Gallas, a people much more nume- 

 rous and fierce than the Assa-hemerah. Ohmed 

 Mahomed's signal cry w r as raised to deceive the 

 people of Annee, up to the very last moment, with 

 the idea that we were going to leave this morning, 

 to prevent them collecting their friends, which they 

 would have gone about very early, had they had 

 any idea we should have remained a day longer 

 with them. 



During the day some unlooked for visitors came 

 into camp, being three old women belonging to 

 the Hittoo Galla. They accompanied a Kafilah of 

 seven or eight donkeys, laden with tobacco and 

 well made hempen ropes, which they offered for 

 sale among our people. They received in ex- 

 change some white cotton cloth, and a little brass 

 wire. They were very old and excessively ugly. 

 These women did not wear the blue covering for 

 the head common to the grown up Dankalli and 

 Soumaulee females. The hair, however, was 

 dressed in the same manner, hanging around the 

 sides and back of the head like a small curtain, from 

 the numerous little plaited locks being connected 

 by bands of interwoven cotton thread. I need not 

 mention that grease had been used with no sparing- 

 hand at their toilet. They wore the same kind 



