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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
CHAP. XXXIIL 
THE BORDER-COUNTRY OF THE MARGHI. 
Friday, ^ E now commenced travelling more in 
June 6th. earnest. Ibrahima had been busy looking 
after his master's subjects, who had been carried 
away into slavery, all about the villages in the neigh- 
bourhood, but with very little success. Our road 
passed close by Uje K&sukuld, which to-day looked 
quite deserted; and then through a populous country 
with numerous villages and fine pasture-grounds, 
where I saw the plant called " walde " by the Fulbe. 
I had taken great pains in Kiikawa, while gathering 
information about the country whither I was going, 
to ascertain from my informants whether snow ever 
lies there on the tops of the mountains or not; but I 
could never get at the truth, none of the natives 
whom I interrogated having ever visited North Africa, 
so as to be able to identify what he saw on the tops 
of the mountains in his country with the snow seen 
in the north. A'hmedu bel Mejiib, indeed, knew the 
Atlas, and had seen snow on some of the tops of that 
range ; but he had paid little attention to the subject, 
and did not think himself justified in deciding the 
question. Now this morning, when we obtained 
