CiiAP. LXXXV. WELL OF Dl^BBELA. 
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Starting again from here at a very early Timrsda^^ 
hour in the night, we reached after a march ^"""^ 
of about six miles the well of Dibbela, the romantic 
character of which, with its high sand hills, from 
which black rocky masses towered forth, together with 
its diim-palms, struck me not a little. But the water 
is abominable, being impregnated with an immense 
quantity of natron ; and it was here that Mr. Henry 
Warrington, who had accompanied Mr. Vogel to 
Kiikawa, succumbed to the dysentery with which he 
had been seized on the road, the bad quality of the 
water having probably brought the disorder to a crisis. 
It was, moreover, a very hot day, although not hotter 
than usual, the thermometer at two o'clock indicating 
109° in the best shade I could hnd ; and the masses 
of sand all around were quite bewitching and bewil- 
dering. Starting again in the afternoon as soon 
as the heat had reached its greatest intensity, we 
ascended the sandy downs with a considerable wes- 
terly deviation, leaving just beyond this hollow 
another one, with some talha trees, and then keep- 
ing over the sandy level with a ridge of the same 
character, and passing after a march of about five 
miles a great quantity of kajiji, till after a good 
stretch of altogether seventeen miles, we encamped 
on hard sandy ground. On this tedious journey, I 
always felt greatly delighted on our arrival at the 
camping-ground, to stretch myself at full length on 
the clean sand, the softness of which makes one feel 
in no want of a couch. 
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