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along this low grassy shore, but, during some months 
of the year, the water reaches the very downs. It is a 
fine spot for an encampment, the air being good. But 
the whole site consists only of a narrow sandy ridge, 
backed towards the north by an extensive swamp, the 
border of which is girt with the richest profusion 
of vegetation, interwoven with creeping plants, and 
interspersed with dum-bush. This place is called 
" liggada, " and forms a haunt for numbers of wild 
beasts, especially lions, and the inhabitants gave an 
animated description of a nocturnal combat which, 
two days previously, had raged between two lions on 
account of a lioness. 
It had been decided that we should await here the 
return of the Sheikh ; but, after we had passed the fol- 
lowing day in this place, our friends the Kel-n-no- 
kiinder, already satisfied with the honour of enter- 
taining so many guests for one day, endeavoured to 
escape from our hands, and, without having given us 
the slightest warning, on the morning of Saturday 
suddenly removed their encampment. Fortunately 
they went eastward, in which direction I would have • 
followed them to the end of the world. Thus my 
companions, the telamid, rushed after them like 
hungry vultures after their prey. I had my things 
packed in a moment, and we followed them along 
the same narrow neck of downs on which our route 
had lain in coming from Amalelle ; but, instead 
of traversing the swamp by the ford northward, we 
kept along it towards the east, where the downs gra- 
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