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hump or " tozo " hanging down on one side. But 
in this delightful spectacle objects of destruction also 
were not wanting, the poisonous plant " tumnia" 
starting forth everywhere. 
Cotton and karasia fields interrupted the parklike 
scenery; and near Kamri, a small place surrounded 
with a low clay wall, we were delighted with the 
view of a green patch of low ground laid out into 
beds, and, with the help of a number of drawbeams, 
" khattatir," or " lambuna," producing wheat and 
onions. This ground too is only worked with the 
gelma and the fertana or small hoe. 
Granite rock was protruding in several places; and 
a little after mid-day we had a detached range of hills 
on our right stretching E. and W. Soon afterwards, 
near the village Temma, we passed a small market- 
place, consisting of about eight sheds, and shaded by 
a number of wide-spreading tamarind-trees, where I 
was astonished at the number of cattle and horses 
assembled, but heard on inquiry that they were not 
intended for sale. Further on, after we had passed 
the fields of Gogo, plenty of cattle and goats were 
seen browsing everywhere about. All the cattle were 
of a white, and all the goats of a coffee-brown colour. 
Having passed the encampment of the Tin-neggaru 
or Kel-neggaru, and crossed a dal-e fringed with small 
fresh patches of wheat, which were watered by way of 
the said " lambuna " from w r ells in the hollow, we en- 
camped a quarter before four o'clock close to the fence 
of the village Bogo ; for the whole country swarms 
