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Chap. XL VII. 
or, as they are called in Kaniiri, bagga argiimbe, still 
standing in the fields. 
We encamped a little beyond the temporary village 
of Sheikh el Khases, close to an extensive sheet of 
water, under the shade of a beautiful tamarind-tree. 
This piece of water, as the people assured me, only 
dries up annually for a short time, when the rainy 
season again fills it. All these native Arabs, as I 
have already had occasion to remark, are very inhos- 
pitable ; and the people here, where we had encamped, 
did not offer us any refreshment. However I suc- 
ceeded in buying from them a little honey, for a few 
needles. 
When we started again in the afternoon, we had 
great difficulty in avoiding the swamps. The coun- 
try at times was well cultivated, producing, besides 
sorghum, a quantity of beans of the speckled kind ; 
but I was not a little astonished to see, in the midst 
of the stubble-fields, young crops of that variety of 
sorghum called " masakuwa." This is a very rare 
sight in these countries in the month of March, as in 
general this winter corn is got in during December or 
January. We then entered a forest, and, following a 
winding path, reached the rather considerable village 
Munke, which belongs to Logon, but is inhabited 
chiefly by Kaniiri. Here I pitched my tent in the 
market-place, and was not a little pestered by num- 
bers of inquisitive people. 
Saturday, ^he c° untr y through which we passed 
March isth. as we drew nearer the capital of Log6n, 
