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WINE ANIMALS. 
No tent was pitched, but I made myself com- 
fortable by drinking the remainder of a bottle of 
port wine, which I began yesterday. I felt a little 
queer, and fancied I had injured myself by drinking 
so much milk ; so I took to a bottle of port wine, 
and finished it in three times. I have felt much 
better since. I could very well drink a bottle a- 
day, and believe I should be much stronger for 
it. However, such wine should be kept for con- 
valescence after fever. I have still a bottle, and 
some Cyprus wine — very good wine. 
20th. — We started as soon as the day broke 
and the sun showed himself, and made five hours 
south-east over country the same as yesterday. 
But the forests of doom-palms were larger and 
thicker, and valleys also were more extensive. 
What is strange, no wild animals show themselves, 
not even in these sedgy, reedy swamps. I could 
only see scattered on the ground the feathers of 
the guinea-fowl. One or two black-and-white 
crows were noticed. Our people say that all the 
crows are of this colour in Bornou. In Asben 
there are both species, the black, and the black- 
and-white. Our people also tell us, that on the 
other route, which the Kashalla wished to travel, 
there are numbers of elephants, and much water. 
Here is water enough in the rainy season for all 
such animals. We had still the tholukh, as well 
as the doom, and a tree like a large sea-shore plant 
cropped by the camels. 
We saw no ghaseb cultivation, or any sort of 
