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Oar camels, therefore, which hereabouts found plenty 
of their favourite and nourishing food, the aghiil or 
Hedysarum Alhaggi, fared much better than we our- 
selves- The neighbourhood had rather a dreary- 
aspect; the east wind was very high and trouble- 
some ; the well was distant, and, with a depth of 
eight fathoms, did not furnish the supply necessary 
for the numerous visitors to the market. 
Early in the afternoon we continued our march, 
first in the company of some market-people returning 
to their native village, then left to our judgment 
to discriminate, among the numberless footpaths 
which intersected the country in every direction, the 
one which was most direct or rather least circuitous ; 
for a direct highroad there is none. We became at 
length so heartily tired of groping our way alone, 
that we attached ourselves to a horseman who in- 
vited us to accompany him to his village, till, be- 
coming aware that it lay too much out of our way, 
we ascended the slope of a sandy ridge to our right, 
on the summit of which was situated the village 
Liishiri, where we pitched our tent. 
Here also the inhabitants behaved hospitably ; and 
I had scarcely dismounted, when a woman from a 
neighbouring hut brought me a bowl of ghussub- 
water as a refreshment. We succeeded also in buying 
here a good supply of beans and sorghum — or 
ngaberi, as it is called in Kaniiri ; for my Katsena 
horse refused to eat the millet or argum, and sor- 
ghum is very scarce in all this part of the country 
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