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fire our large fhip-blunderbufs, with fifty fmall bullets in is, 
among the bufhes, in the direction of the road-fide; but” 
we neither faw nor heard any thing of thofe people there- 
after, if there-really were any, nor did I, at the time, indeed, 
believe the camel-driver had feen any one but through the: 
medium of his own fears; for the Arabs never attack you: 
till near fun-fet, if they are doubtful of their own fuperio- 
rity, or at dawn of day, if they think they have the advan-- 
tage, that they may have time to purfue you.. 
We, however, all continued on foot, from four till the- 
grey of the morning of the 19th of April. Indeed, fo vio-. 
lent an inclination to fleep had fallen upon me, that I was: 
forced to walk, for fear of breaking my neck by a fall from. 
my camel, till eight o’clock, when we halted in a wood of: 
ebony bufhes, growing hke the birch tree in many fhoots. 
from the old ftems, which had. been cut down for fear of. 
harbouring the fly, and totally deprived of their leaves af-. 
terwards, by the burning of grafs, from the fame reafon.. 
This place is called Abou Jehaarat, and is the limit between: 
the government of Teawa and Beyla. After fuch a very. fa-. 
tiguing journey, we refted at Abou Jehaarat till the afters_. 
noon. The fun was very hot, but fortunately fome fhep-. 
herds caves were dug in the bank, and'to thefe we fled for 
fhelter from the intenfe heat of the fun, where the ebony, 
trees, though in a very thick wood, could afford us no fhade;, 
for the reafons already given. _ 
At three o'clock in the afternoon we fet out from: 
Abou Jehaarat, in a direction weft, and at eight in the: 
evening. we arrived at Beyla. There is no water be-- 
tween Teawa and Beyla. Once, Imgededema, and a number. 
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