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little more than two miles beyond, we came to another 
encampment of Tawarek. Here fortunately I found 
better rest than at Bele's, only a few people being 
present at the time. The chief, too, being of rather a 
subordinate character, raised his pretensions less high. 
On account of their degraded character and their low 
condition in the scale of Tawarek society, these people 
were not even allowed to wear swords, which is the 
emblem of the free and noble Amoshagh, but, besides 
their spears, they are only armed with a long " telak," 
or knife, worn at the left arm. All the Tawarek 
hereabouts wear short narrow shirts, and short and 
tightly fitting trowsers ; and almost all of them wear 
round the lower and upper part of their face, a shawl 
composed of strips of different colours and materials, 
as I have stated above ; only the chief himself uses 
a black tobe, and a shawl of the same colour. 
These various tribes pasture their cattle quite dif- 
ferently from each other. Most of the Tawarek, like 
the Fulbe in general, drive them out early in the 
morning, and fetch them home when the heat of the 
day commences, in order to milk them, after which the 
cattle are again driven out till evening ; but the people 
of this as well as of the last day's encampment, pas- 
ture their cattle during the night, and fetch them 
home early in the morning for milking. We had a 
fine cool breeze in the evening, which refreshed me 
extremely while lying in front of my tent ; but in 
the night a heavy thunder-storm broke out, followed 
by a moderate quantity of rain. 
