WADY NOGAL. 



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field mapping, I determined that his part of the 

 work should be in the highly interesting Eastern 

 Horn of Africa. He accordinorly landed at Bun- 

 der Guray, with directions to explore the import- 

 ant feature, called by Lieut. Cruttenden, I. N., 

 * Wady Nogal,' and to visit the highlands of the 

 Warsangali and the Dulbahanta tribes, the most 

 warlike and the least treacherous of the Somal. 

 Meanwhile Lieutenants Stroyan and Herne re- 

 mained at Berber ah, collecting information from 

 and watching the annual fair, whilst I proceeded, 

 more, it must be confessed, for curiosity and for 

 display of travelling savoir faire, than for other 

 reason, through the Habr Awal and other most 

 dangerous families of the Somal, to Harar, the 

 Tinbuktu of Eastern Africa. 



I returned to Aden on Eeb. 9th, 1855, and 

 was followed about a week afterwards by Lieut. 

 Speke. He was thoroughly disgusted with his 

 journey, and he brought back a doleful tale of 

 trouble. He had adopted, by my advice, a kind 

 of half-eastern dress, as did Colonel Pelly and 

 his officers, when visiting El E-iyaz, the head- 

 quarters of the Wahhabis ; and he attributed to 

 this costume all his misfortunes. He came back, 

 determined that no such feature as the Wady 

 Nogal existed : yet M. Guillain (ii. 493) saw be- 



