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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXXIX. 
sight) which a man can fancy. But all was so quiet, 
and bespoke such serenity and content, that I felt, 
quite happy and invigorated. I did not think about 
writing, but idled away the whole day. In the 
evening my other man came, and brought me a 
note from Mr. Overweg, addressed to me a in campo 
caragse iEthiopiensis " (karaga means wilderness). 
Saturday, I decided late in the morning, when the 
Sept. 13th. ( j ew j ia( j drigd U p a little, upon moving 
my encampment a short distance, but had to change 
my path for a more westerly one, on account of the 
large swampy ponds, formed at the end of the rainy 
season in the concavity at the foot of the sand-hills of 
Dawerghu. The vegetation is rich during this sea- 
son, even in this monotonous district. 
Having at length entered the corn-, or rather mil- 
let-fields of Dawerghu, we soon ascended the sand- 
hills, where the whole character of the landscape is 
altered ; for while the dum-bush almost ceases, the re- 
tem, Spartium mono sper mum, is the most common bo- 
tanical ornament of the ground where the cultivation 
of the fields has left a free spot, whilst fine specimens 
of the mimosa break the monotony of the fields. 
Having passed several clusters of cottages forming an 
extensive district, I saw to the right an open space 
descending towards a green sheet of water, filling a 
sort of valley or hollow, where a short time after- 
wards, when the summer harvest is over, the peculiar 
sort of sorghum called masakwa is sown. Being 
shaded by some fine acacias, the spot was very in- 
