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something for himself, and to procure provisions. He will be satis- 
fied with one hundred dollars, which, if Macowar is jn 54°, is mo- 
derate, in comparison of the price from Mocha hither. 
The young Dola is impatient that we should depart, as he will 
then go with the caravan to Sennaar, which only waits for his being 
at leisure. He informed me, that he had frequently been this 
journey, since his father had thought him old enough to have the 
care of the caravan. I asked him, if the Vizier continued to collect 
the revenue from the inhabitants of the southern country, as they 
passed up into the sands ; he said he knew of no such thing. I made 
every possible inquiry, but in vain, he still persevering in his asser- 
tion, that no such thing ever took place. I made Abdallah trans- 
late to him Bruce's history of the Zimb or Tsaltsalya, but he posi- 
tively asserted that he had never heard of the animal. As he was 
extremely free in his communications on every other subject, and 
had no motive for concealment on this, I cannot attribute to him 
a wanton and deliberate falshood, merely because Mr. Bruce has 
asserted the contrary, on whose veracity, I confess, I have lost all 
dependence. These declarations of Emir Mohammed are confirmed 
by the testimony of Mr. Brown, who assures me, that, when travel- 
ling in Africa, he made the same inquiries of people who had 
visited Sennaar, and with the same success. I can declare from my 
own knowledge, that there is no foundation for his assertion that 
the same migration takes place from Cape Gardafui to the Straits, 
any more than there is for the idea, that the chain of mountains, 
which runs parallel to the Red Sea, divides the seasons equally, and 
that it is fair on one side, while the torrents of rain pour down on 
the other. This is certainly the case in the peninsula of hidia, from 
