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a bit of camphor and a parcel of cloves. Camphor 
is a most precious thing in these regions, and highly 
esteemed by the nobler classes, and I cannot too 
strongly recommend a traveller to provide himself 
with a supply of it. It is obvious that a small 
quantity, if well kept, will last him a long time. He 
may find an opportunity of laying a man of first-rate 
importance under lasting obligations by a present of 
a small piece of camphor. 
We at length set out to continue our Tuesday 
journey. The morning was beautifully June 17th - 
fresh and cool after the last night's storm, the sky 
was clear, and the country open and pleasant. A 
fine grassy plain, with many patches of cultivated 
ground, extended on our right to the very foot of 
Mount Konkel, which as I now saw is connected by a 
lower ridge with Mount Holma. We passed the ruins 
of the village Bingel, the inhabitants of which had 
transferred their settlement nearer to the foot of 
the mountains. Then followed forest, interrupted 
now and then by corn-fields. My friends, the young 
sons of Ardo Jidda, accompanied me for full two 
hours on horseback, when they bade me a friendly 
farewell, receiving each of them, to his great delight, 
a stone-set ring, which I begged them to present to 
their ladies as a memorial of the Christian traveller. I 
now learnt that the young men were already mixing 
a good deal in politics ; the younger brother, who was 
much the handsomer, and seemed to be also the more 
intelligent of the two, had till recently administered 
