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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. L1V. 
late when we set out, changing now our course 
entirely, from a north-westerly into a north north- 
easterly direction. The whole neighbourhood was 
enveloped in a thick fog. The country, after we had 
passed the mountain Boro, which gives its name to 
the village Bormari, became rather mountainous. The 
path wound along through a succession of irregular 
glens and dells, surrounded by several more or less 
detached rocky eminences, all of which were clothed 
with bush. The bottom of the valleys, which con- 
sisted mostly of sand, seemed well adapted for the 
cultivation of sorghum. We passed a large store 
of grain, where the people were busy pounding or 
threshing the harvested corn. 
In many places, however, the ground was inter- 
sected by numerous holes of the fenek or Megalotis ; 
and at times clay took the place of the sandy soil. 
Numerous herds of camels enlivened the landscape, 
all of which belonged, not to the present owners of 
the country, but to the Tawarek, the friends and 
companions of the people of Miisa, who had lately 
made a foray on a grand scale into this very 
province. 
We encamped at length, after a march of about 
thirteen miles, near the second well of Suwa-Kolol- 
luwa, which Avas two fathoms in depth, and, unlike 
the first well, contained a good quantity of water. 
The scenery had nothing very remarkable about it ; 
but it exhibited a cheerful, homely character, sur- 
rounded as it was by hills, and enlivened by herds of 
