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night, accompanied by loud, mournful strokes on the 
great drum, could not fail to make a deep impression. 
However, we passed here tranquilly the following 
day, and enjoyed rest and repose the more as the 
weather was very oppressive. 
We received here the positive news that the body of 
Waday horsemen who had come to the assistance of the 
Woghda, and had caused the Arabs so much fear and 
anxiety the day before, had returned to Mawo ; and a 
very curious story was told with regard to them, which 
at once shows how highly these horsemen of Waday are 
respected by the Arabs, and the esteem which they them- 
selves entertain for the latter. Thirty Waday horsemen 
were said to have arrived with the Woghda in conse- 
quence of their entreaties, and to have followed with 
them the traces of our friends, the Woghda repre- 
senting to them that many of the latter had been 
killed. Thus they arrived in the morning when we 
had just left the camp at A'lali, and the dust raised by 
our host was plainly visible in the distance; but when 
the Woghda instigated the Waday people to go and 
attack that host, they wanted to assure themselves 
how many of the Arabs had fallen in the last battle, in 
which thirty-four of the Woghda were said to have been 
slain, and when they found only two tombs, the latter 
told them that in each there were ten bodies ; but the 
Waday people, being anxious to make sure of the valour 
of their friends, had the tombs dug up, and found only 
two buried in each. Whereupon they stigmatized the 
Woghda as liars, and felt little inclined to follow the 
