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inconsiderable portion of the food of the nomadic 
inhabitants of these regions. Besides the siwak, or 
" tesak," there was also a great quantity of " retem," 
which is here called atdrkit or dsabay ; further on, 
diim-palms became very prevalent. 
Leaving, then, the locality called Tahont on our left, 
we reached a very large grassy creek, which was en- 
livened by herds of cattle, and encamped on its bor- 
der, in the shade of a dense belt of fine trees, woven 
together by an immense number of climbing plants. 
The whole bottom of the vallej^ was at least seven 
hundred yards wide, and behind a smaller strip of 
water a larger open branch was observed, intersecting 
the rich grassy valley. It is very remarkable, that 
neither the Imoshagh, or Tawdrek, nor the Arabs, 
have, as far as I am aware, a name sufficiently ex- 
pressive for these shallow vales ; the Arabs in gene- 
ral calling an open creek of water " rejl " or " kra," 
and a less open one " bot-ha while the Tawarek 
call them in general an arm, properly a leg, of the 
river, or "adar-n-eghirreu ;" but the native Hausa 
name " fAddama " is far more significant. It was on 
this account that Caillie called the whole of these 
shallow creeks by the corrupted Jolof name, "ma- 
rigot." 
Close behind our encampment the ground formed 
a slight slope, and presented the site or tazdmbut of 
a former Songhay place called Hendi-kiri, a place 
which is perhaps identical with Kambakiri, mentioned 
in the history of Songhay as the spot where a dread- 
