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ance. I was told that the lion hereabouts has no 
mane, or at least a very small one, like the lion of 
A'sben. 
The first part of this day's march led through Thursday, 
a flat country, which some time before had ^P^^^^oth. 
been entirely inundated. Even at present, not only 
on the south side of the path, towards the river, 
were extensive inundations to be seen, but on the 
left, or north side, a large open sheet spread out. 
Having passed numbers of Tawarek, who were shifting 
their tents, as well as two miserable-looking encamp- 
ments of the Shemman-A'mmas, whose movements af- 
forded some proofs of the disturbed state of the coun- 
try, we ascended the higher sandy bank, where I first 
observed the poisonous euphorbia^ called here " abdri 
e' sebiiwa," or " tdboru," which generally grows in 
the shade of the trees, especially in that of acacias, 
and is said frequently to cause the death of the lion, 
from which circumstance its name is derived. Pursu- 
ing our easterly course, and keeping along the sandy 
bauk, with a deep marshy ground on our right, we 
then reached a group of two encampments, one be- 
longing to the rdenan, and the other to the Shemman- 
A'mmas, and here halted during the hot hours of 
the day. Both the above-mentioned tribes are of a 
degraded character; and the women were anything but 
decent and respectable in their behaviour. 
Having here decided that it was better to go our- 
selves and fetch the rest of our party whom we had 
sent in advance from B6se-bango, instead of despatch- 
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