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idiom of the Yedina *, the islanders of the Tsad, on 
the one side, and the Miisgu people on the other. 
In the province of A'fade a great proportion of 
the population consists of Shiiwa, principally of the 
tribes E' Nejahne, and Welad AM Khodhair. The 
governor was absent just at the time, on a small expe- 
dition to chastise some of these people, who are very- 
unsettled in their habits, and often refractory. Not- 
withstanding his absence, however, we were very hos- 
pitably treated, our supper consisting, besides a sheep, 
and numerous bowls of Negro corn, of a dish of well- 
dressed fish, very palatable, from the river Lebe ; 
there was likewise no scarcity of milk. 
It would certainly have been very inter- 
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esting to have made a few days' stay here, 
in order to obtain a clearer insight into the peculiar 
characteristics of this province ; but as the more 
distant object of my enterprise did not allow of a 
longer delay, I pursued my march. All these towns 
are very inconvenient for travellers, their gates not 
being large enough for loaded camels to pass through. 
When we had reached the great road, where the 
forest is interrupted by a little cultivation of cotton, 
I saw two beautiful specimens of that species of 
antelope which is here called " tigdim," of grey colour 
and very low in body ; I think it is identical with, or 
nearly related to, the Antilope annulipes. 
This was the only time I observed this species of 
* I repeat here what I have stated, I think, in another place, 
that in my opinion the Yedina are meant by Makrizi's Lxj*L 
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