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two parts of the same, having little villages, and scattered famiUes 
all over the desert ; the people are Mohammedans and Kaffirs, 
though the latter are the most numerous. 
Wajunga, a country also pillaged during the last excursion, 
is eight days east of Borgoo. It is a considerable tract, and 
has two large towns or districts one day east and west of each 
other. The eastern one has a very large river running north and 
south through it, five or six hundred yards in breadth, and of great 
depth. The water is brackish, and in it are abundance of very fine 
fish. The Ghrazzie passed this river on rafts, and the horses, having 
been previously sluHg with inflated gerbas, or water-skins, were 
towed across. The whole of this country is very mountainous, 
having large rocky tracts of perfectly black stone, which they say 
not a httle favoured the escape of the greater part of the inhabitants, 
who were not easily distinguished from them. Some of the rocks 
here, as well as in Borgoo, are so perpendicular and high, that, to 
use an Arab expression, " You could not see their tops without 
losing your tagaia, or red cap." 
The western Wajunga has three rivers running through it, two 
of which are sweet " as honey," and one salt ; the largest, which 
the Arabs say is the Nil, is of great breadth, and very deep, and 
runs from west to east. Dates are in great plenty here, and the 
cattle very numerous ; there are also elephants in this country, and 
multitudes of ostriches. The people of both sexes are clothed in 
skins ; some, however, wear a curious leather gown. They are a 
fine race of people, and are swift runners ; but the Arabs consider 
them in the fight of Kaffirs, asserting that they were not made by 
God, but that they came by chance. 
Wajunga to Waday is ten days south. On the road Terraweiya 
is three days from Wajunga. 
