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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LIV. 
hamlet, which is the smallest of the four, close to the 
spot where I had entered the place, not being aware 
of its extent ; and from here I made, in the afternoon, 
a sketch of the mountain-range towards the south, 
and the dry shelving level bordered by the strip of 
green verdure with the palm trees in the foreground, 
which is represented in the plate opposite. In the 
evening I was hospitably regaled by each of the two 
billama who govern the town, and I had the satisfac- 
tion of making a "tailor to His Majesty Miiniyoma," 
who was residing here, very happy by the present of 
a few large darning-needles for sewing the libbedi or 
wadded dress for the soldiers. 
Monday, On leaving Wushek, we directed our 
December 20th. course D y the spur of the mountain-chain 
to the south south-west, crossing several hollows, one 
of which presented a very luxuriant cotton-ground 
carefully fenced in by the euphorbiacea here called 
m&gara, which I have described on a former occa- 
sion. The country in general consisted of a broken 
sandy level clothed with tall reeds. Leaving then 
a small village of the name of Gediyo in a recess 
of the mountains, we entered an undulating plain, 
the prairie of Nogo, open towards the west, but 
bounded on the east by an amphitheatre of low hills, 
and densely clothed with herbage and broom, to 
which succeeded underwood of small mimosas, and 
further on, when we approached the hills on the other 
side of the plain, large clusters of " abisga," or Cam- 
paris sodata. Only here and there traces of cultiva- 
