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WELL OF CHIDUGULAH. 
place could be better adapted for such an unwieldy 
creature. There is abundance of small tholukh, on 
which it feeds ; all the country is open around to 
it, and it is out of the reach of ferocious animals. 
Towards the evening the marks of the giraffe disap- 
peared, and were succeeded by the footprints of 
what is here called the wild ox (but which Overweg 
believes to be a large species of gazelle), so that one 
animal appears to have made room for the other. 
The day was cool and cloudy. 
The plain is intersected with shallow beds and 
streams, and in some places evident marks of an 
abundance of water in the rainy season. 
30th. — We started early for the well, but did 
not reach it till late in the evening, after a march of 
nine hours. The well is called Chidugulah, and is 
situated on the side of a valley of some depth. In 
the bed of this valley Overweg found some infusoria, 
clay or stone. 
Many people started in the night to get water, 
and give their animals a drink. There is but a 
small supply, and what there is has a muddy, choco- 
late colour. The last water we took up from the 
valleys of Asben had a milky hue, so that when the 
coffee was made of it, it looked like cafe au lait. 
Bandits and hostile tribes frequent this well of 
Chidugulah, and rest hereabouts to pillage caravans. 
Our people spoke of the Oulimad, and Overweg 
dreamed he was fighting with them. I dreamed 
the same night of large turtles, for it had been said 
