Chap. LXXIX. UNSETTLED DISTRICTS. 
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The situation of our camping-ground afforded us an 
interesting prospect over the valley ; and numbers of 
the inhabitants of the neighbouring hamlets and 
camps visited us in the course of the evening, and 
even supplied us with a tolerable provision of milk 
late at night. 
The guide who was to accompany us as far Tuesday, 
as Say not having arrived, I had great diffi- J^^yi^*-^- 
culty in inducing my companions to set off without 
him : and we started at an early hour, keeping along the 
sandy doAvns, which a little further on became adorned 
with the rich bush called " inderren," or " kolkoli," 
while ledges of rock obstructed the river. Gradually 
the downs decreased in height, and the melancholy- 
looking ferndn succeeded to the fresh inderren, but 
its place was supplied for a while by the richer taborak. 
The locality was called Alakke, and further on, Der- 
gimi ; but fixed settlements of any kind are, at present, 
looked for in vain in these districts. In A'ussa, how- 
ever, on the north-eastern side of the river, we left, 
first a hamlet called Dergonne, and, further on, a 
place called A'ghador, which, as the name indicates, 
must have been formerly a walled place. West from 
Dergonne is probably the halting place Shmjeri, and 
A'ghad6r is most likely identical with a place called 
Eben-efo-ghan, said to be hereabouts. The opposite 
bank, gradually sloping down and being clad with 
large trees, bore the appearance of a pleasant, culti- 
vable country, while the shore on this side the river 
likewise improved ; altogether it seemed as if we had 
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