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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LXII. 
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owing to 
our curious zig- 
zag travelling, we had again 
turned off from them en- 
tirely ; and when we left the 
village of Mundoro, it seemed 
even as if we were almost 
to retrace our steps, for we 
followed a direction a little 
E. from N. while ascending 
through cultivated ground, 
till, after a march of three 
miles, we reached the highest 
point of this tract, which pre- 
/o sented to us a highly inter- 
esting view of the mountains, 
or rather the detached emi- 
) nences, of the Hombori range 
H (which is represented in the 
accompanying woodcut), iso- 
lated cones starting forth from 
the plain in the most gro- 
tesque and fanciful forms. 
Here we began to de- 
scend through an undulating 
sandy tract, where the acacia 
predominated, only inter- 
rupted now and then by a 
single baobab tree. Having 
passed a pond of stagnant 
water, we gradually began to turn a little westward 
from N., the country improving till we reached the 
