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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LXXXV. 
Having encamped at a rather late hour, we 
June 8th. ^.^ start SO early as usual, and halted 
after a march of about eight miles on a ground 
almost entirely destitute of herbage, but what seemed 
very remarkable, soaked by the rain of the previous 
day, and affording another and still stronger proof 
of the incorrectness of the opinion which had hitherto 
been entertained of this whole tract never being 
fertilized by the rains. The soil also was full of the 
footprints of the " bagr-el-wdhesh,'^ Antelope bubalis, 
which being pursued by the sportsmen of A'gadem 
and Dibbela, had evidently sought a refuge in this 
region. 
Having from hence made a stretch of about ten 
miles in the afternoon, and halted for nearly four 
hours at sunset, we started again for a wearisome 
night's march, deviating very considerably from our 
former track ; and after a march of a little more 
than eighteen miles, the latter part over a difficult 
range of sand hills, we reached in the morning the 
well of Zaw-kura in a dreadfully fatigued state, and 
with the loss of four camels; but it was cheering to find 
that the locality — a vale richly adorned with siwdk, or 
Capparis sodata^ afforded some relief not only to the 
body but even to the mind. We here met with a small 
caravan of Tebu, natives of the very ancient village 
of A'gherim or A'ghram, the place of which I have 
spoken on a former occasion*, and which lies three 
days northwest from here by way of Yawi. Being 
* See Vol. II. p. 654. 
