Chap. LII. 
RIVER OF LOGO'N. 
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not yet lost that profusion of vowels which originally 
characterized this language ; but its purity has been 
greatly impaired by other peculiarities. They have 
some remarkable customs which connect them with 
their brethren in the East, — especially the law of re- 
taliation, or e' dhiye* and the infibulatio of the young 
girls. These Arabs belong to the large tribe of the 
Salamat. 
After a inarch of about eight miles, Sunday 
through a country partly cultivated with August 1 5th. 
Negro millet, partly forming an extensive swampy 
plain, we reached the river of Logon. On account 
of the great rising of the river, we had been obliged 
to follow, this time, an entirely different path from the 
one we had pursued on our outward journey. The 
scenery was greatly changed ; and the little hollow 
which we had formerly crossed close behind our 
landing-place had now become a navigable branch 
of the river, on which several boats of considerable 
size were seen plying to and fro. The whole river 
now presented a very extensive sheet of water, un 
broken by any sandbanks or islands, which, while it 
certainly was exceeded in breadth by the river Shari, 
surpassed it in its turn in swiftness, the current being 
evidently more than three and a half miles an hour. 
* With regard to this custom, Burkhardt's information {Travels 
in Nubia, 2nd ed. Appendix I. p. 434.) is very correct ; but in 
general his information respecting the countries on the east side 
of the Tsad is marred with mistakes, not only with regard to the 
geography, but even the ethnology of these quarters, as he always 
confounds native and Arab tribes. 
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