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ing a fair specimen of the state of the province of 
Gando, which we here entered. 
The country here, as well as near Bodmga, is almost 
exclusively adorned with monkey-bread trees, and the 
soil seemed to be very parched ; but a little further on 
we descended into a depression which, having been 
already fertilised by the rain, was just being sown. 
Further on, the ground continuing undulating, we 
watered our horses at a rich source of living water 
which rushed out from the rocks at the side of a small 
hamlet. We then passed a large and comfortable- 
looking place called Dendi (perhaps after a por- 
tion of that tribe, which settled here) and adorned 
with a profusion of trees, among which the dorowa 
or ParMa, the goreba or dum palm, and the gigina 
or deleb palm were most conspicuous. Towards the 
south-east side it was bordered by a depression full of 
yams and fresh herbage, and fringed by numbers of 
monkey-bread trees. Even a little market-place was 
to be seen ; and the place seemed so attractive to my 
people, that they would fain have spent here the rest 
of the day, and they were not at all pleased when I 
insisted on continuing our march. A little after noon 
we passed a pretty village with a small dyeing-place. 
Besides corn-fields, where the crops were already two 
inches out of the ground, indigo was cultivated to a 
great extent. We then entered upon rocky ground, 
and, five miles further on, reached the place Shagali, 
separated into two groups along the northern slope 
of an eminence, and surrounded on three sides by 
