Chap. XLIT. ARMY IN MOTION. — LAMl'NO. 123 
their wild native manner. Thus, after a march of 
about eleven miles, we reached the cotton-fields of 
Yedi, a town of considerable magnitude, surrounded 
by a clay wall in a state of good repair. We passed 
it on a rising ground to our left, while the coun- 
try on the north-western side spread out in one 
continuous sandy plain, dotted here and there by 
a few dum-bushes (ngille) and by a few single 
dum-palms. On this side of the town, at about 
a quarter of an hour's distance, after the autumnal 
rains, a large pond is formed, on the borders of which 
gardens of onions are planted by the inhabitants of 
Yedi, and irrigated with the aid of khattatir. 
The sun was intensely hot ; and the heat at noon 
was very great. Strange to say, during all this time 
I neglected to make thermometrical observations; and 
as far as I am aware Overweg did not pay more atten- 
tion to this subject than myself : but the reason of this 
neglect was, that we usually started early in the 
morning, and seldom had shade in the neighbourhood 
of our tents at noon ; for these, which by this time 
were so much worn that every object inside cast a 
shadow as well as outside, could give us, of course, no 
measure for the temperature of the air. 
Our protector L amino afterwards sent us an ex- 
cellent dish of rice boiled in milk and covered with 
bread and honey. The rice was of a whiteness un- 
usual in this country. Having received likewise a 
dish of bread and honey from the vizier, we thought 
it our duty to pay him a visit, and through his me- 
