EN-NOOR'S WIFE UNAN. 
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En-Noor called at my tent in the evening, and 
was very civil. I got a little milk afterwards for 
the tea sent him. The royal family appear now 
to be short of milk. I find that his royal highness 
has in reality only one wife, who is a slave. In 
an African point of view, however, even this is too 
much. His highness confessed to Overvveg that 
God gave man his limited time in this as in all 
things. Had the beating I have recorded any 
relation to this bitter reflection? 
When the sun is down, the landscape around 
begins to look like Old England, the species of trees 
not being visible. The doom reminds me of the 
shorn elms along the hedges. 
23d. — The Sultan of Asouclee sent this morning 
for powder, and was thankful for a small quantity. 
We remained here this day. All the valleys and 
country around are called Unan. This is also the 
name of a well near us, but water is usually ob- 
tained by scooping out the sand in the bed of the 
valleys, and there are few regular wells ; those 
which are dug are destroyed as soon as the rain 
returns. Such alone remain entire as are out of 
the reach, or beyond the range of the periodic 
floods. 
24th. — We were not to come on to-day; but 
En-Noor changed his mind, and we journeyed on 
five hours, up the valley of Unan. The eternal 
sameness of the tholukh and doom — for dooms are 
now in great numbers — would be wearisome, had we 
