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forth, with their light fanlike foliage, in singular 
contrast to the domelike crowns of dark-green foliage 
which adorned the tamarind trees. This beautiful 
tree further on also remained the greatest ornament 
to the landscape ; but besides this the komor or baiire 
also and other species were observed, and the fan 
palm was to be seen here and there. Cattle and 
camels enlivened the country, which presented the 
appearance of one vast field, and was dotted with 
numerous corn stacks. 
I had entertained the hope of being able this day 
to reach the natron lake of Keleno ; but I convinced 
myself that the distance was too great, and, although 
I reached the first hamlet, which bears the name of 
Keleno, I was obliged to encamp without being able 
to reach the lake. There had been in former iimes a 
large place of the same name hereabout; but the in- 
habitants had dispersed, and settled in small detached 
hamlets. Close to our encampment there was a pond 
of small size, but of considerable depth, which seemed 
never to dry up. It was densely overgrown with tall 
papyrus and meles. The core of the root of this 
rush was used by my young Shuwa companion to 
allay his hunger, but did not seem to me to be very 
palatable : and fortunately it was not necessary to have 
recourse to such food, as we were treated hospitably 
by the inhabitants of the hamlet. The baure, or, as 
they are here called, komor, have generally a very 
stunted and extremely poor appearance in this dis- 
trict, and nothing at all like that magnificent specimen 
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