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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. LXXVI. 
we were here joined by El Bakay. A little more 
than a mile beyond this place, at the downs called 
Ghadir, this large backwater joins the river, and 
here, when we pursued our march in the after- 
noon, we ascended for a while a higher level, con- 
sisting of sandstone rock in a state of great de- 
composition ; but after a march of three miles, again 
descended to its shores, the river being here full of 
green islands, with plenty of fine cattle. Two miles 
further on, we encamped in a place called Tewllaten, 
or Stewilaten, at the side of a rather poor encamp- 
ment of the Kel-Tebank6rit. Notwithstanding their 
poor condition, the people slaughtered two oxen on 
our behalf. 
I had this day still further cause to feel satisfied 
that we were travelling along the north, and not along 
the south side of the river, for while we ourselves 
had but a slight shower, besides summer light- 
ning the whole of the evening, in the course of the 
afternoon a considerable fall of rain took place beyond 
the river in A'ribinda. 
Before we started I began conversing with the 
people of the encampment (the chief of whom, a man 
of renowned valour, is called Hammalati) in a cheer- 
ful manner. Whereupon they praised me as an ex- 
cellent man, but made at the same time the candid 
avowal that the preceding night, when I did not speak 
a word, they felt a great antipathy towards me. 
Having proceeded at a tolerable rate as far as 
this place, we here once more relapsed into our 
