Chap. LIV. 
NEW AND OLD BU'NE. 
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the dendal (or principal street) being as yet fit for 
habitation, while the rest of the place wore a very 
cheerless aspect. 
Returning, therefore, a few hundred yards in the 
direction from whence I had come, I chose my camping- 
ground on an eminence at the side of the path shaded 
by a majestic tamarind tree, and affording an open pros- 
pect over the characteristic landscape in the bottom 
of the irregular vale. Here I spent the whole after- 
noon enjoying this pleasant panorama, of which 1 
made a sketch which has been represented in the 
plate opposite. I had ribw been suffering for the 
last two months from sore legs, which did not al- 
low me to rove about at pleasure ; otherwise I would 
gladly have accompanied my companion 'All el A'ge- 
ren on a visit to his friend Basha Bu-Khalum, a 
relative of that Bu-Khalum who accompanied Den- 
ham and Clapperton. At this time he was residing 
in New Brine, where he had lately lost, by another 
conflagration, almost the whole of his property, in- 
cluding eight female slaves, who were burnt to death 
while fettered in a hut. As conflagrations are very 
common all over Negroland, especially in the dry 
season, a traveller must be extremely careful in con- 
fiding his property to these frail dwellings, and he 
would do well to avoid them entirely. 
A cold northerly wind, which blew in the Wednesday, 
morning, made us feel very chilly in our December 15th - 
open and elevated encampment, so that it was rather 
