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Chap. LXII. 
a view over a wide expanse of underwood, broken 
only now and then by a baobab tree, while towards 
the north some of the detached cones of the 116m- 
bori range gave to the landscape a very singular 
feature, the isolated eminences of the range (if range 
it can be called) starting up from the plain in the 
most peculiar forms, as the accompanying woodcut 
will show. 
We passed the site of a former place ; but at pre- 
sent there were only nomadic encampments of Fiilbe 
cattle-breeders, with herds of cattle and flocks of 
sheep, and only little cultivation was to be seen. 
The dwellings, in a hamlet which we passed a little 
further on, were of a very irregular description, cor- 
responding to the corn- stacks which we had left on 
one side a little before, as represented in the accom- 
panying woodcut. All the children here, even those 
of the Fiilbe, were quite naked. My companion El 
Walati wanted to obtain quarters in this place ; but 
fortunately the huts proved too bad, and we moved 
on, another hamlet, which we passed a little further 
on, being of a still worse description. 
