‘B26 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
water was almoft exhaufted, and what remained had an ine 
tolerable ftench. However, flocks of Guinea fowls, partrid=. 
_ges, and every fort of bird, had crowded thither to drink, 
from the fcarcity of water elfewhere.: «I believe, Imay cer- 
tainly fay, che number amounted’ to many thoufands. My 
Arabs loaded themfelves ina very little while, killing them 
with flicks and ftones; but they were perfectly ufelefs, 
being reduced to fkeletons by: hunger and thir For this. 
reafon, aswell as that I might notalarmanyftrolling banditta 
within. hearing, I did not fuffer a fhot to be fired at them, 
At eight we came to Eradeeba, where is neither) village 
nor water, but only a refting-place about half a mile fquare, 
which has been cleared from wood, that travellers, who 
pafs to and from Atbara, might have a fecure {pot whence 
they could fee around them, and, guard themfelves from 
being attacked unawares by the Darsdate: usin refort- 
ing to.thofe deferts. 
At aquarter paft eleven we arrived at Quaicha, a bed of - 
-a torrent where there was now no water; but the wood 
feemed growing ftill thicker, and to be full of wild beafts, 
-e{pecially lions and hyenas. Thefe do not fly from man, 
_as thofe did that we had hitherto feen, but came boldly up, 
efpecially the hyena, with a refolution to attack us. Upon 
our firft lighting a fire they left us for a time; but towards 
morning they came in greater numbers, than before;.a lion 
carried away one of our afles from among the other beafts of 
burden, and a hyzna attacked one of the men, tore his cloth 
from his middle, and wounded him in his back. ‘As we 
now expected to be inftantly devoured, the prefent fear over= 
came the refolutions we had made, not to.ufe our fire arms, 
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