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CHAPTER XXX. 



Journey from Annee to How, general direction W. S.W., time 

 marching six hours. — Aleekduggee Sageer.' — Immense Kafilah. 

 — Water cure for determination of blood to the head.' — Attack 

 of the Galla. — Display of forces. — Ras ul Kafilah balances profit 

 and loss so far. 



May \9th. — Being the first Kafilah but one in 

 the line of march, we were saddled and away two 

 hours before sunrise. We ascended the gently 

 rising slope before us, arriving at the summit as 

 the sun came upon the horizon. A sudden but 

 gradual descent of a few feet led us into the 

 extensive but shallow valley plain of Aleekduggee 

 Sageer; which, in the account given of this 

 country by the officers of the British mission in 

 1840, contained in the twelfth volume of the Royal 

 Geographical Society's Journal, is supposed to have 

 been the former bed of a large river; but which 

 most certainly, is nothing more than a broadly 

 denuded valley, some four or fi\e miles in extent, 

 running for a few miles nearly parallel with the 

 river Hawash, into which the little stream that has 

 formed the vallev enters, between the hills of 

 Baardu and Hyhilloo ; the latter being situated 



