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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LXXXV. 
myself travelling in the company of the salt traders 
of A'sben. The salt, filtering through the sides of 
the mound, had all the appearance of long icicles. 
But at present only a small quantity of prepared 
salt was lying here, the season for the Kel-owi to 
carry it away being some months later, when this 
tract must present a very different aspect, and ex- 
hibit a considerable degree of activity ; and it would 
have been highly interesting if Mr. Overweg had 
been able to visit the place at such a season, as he 
had intended. 
It was also a circumstance of considerable interest, 
that about two o'clock in the afternoon, while the 
thermometer indicated 107° 3' in the best shade I 
could find, we had a slight shower, although this whole 
region has been set down as an entirely rainless zone. 
My camels being greatly reduced, and several of them 
of little value, I exchanged the two worst among 
them for one belonging to the Daza, our former fellow- 
travellers, who being bent upon staying here a few 
days, before they undertook their home journey to 
Bornu, were thus enabled to wait until the animals 
had recruited their strength. 
At an early hour in the morning, long before 
the dawn of day, we continued our journey 
northward along the Wddi Kawdr, as it is called by 
the Arabs, or the Heneri-tege, valley of the Tege 
or Ted^, as it is called by the natives, having 
the steep rocky cliffs, which at times formed pictu- 
resque platforms, at about three miles distance on 
