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mosque, and the way out of town were all crowded. I 
was pressed from all sides, that they might touch me, 
and to ask me for my prayers. I took a northward di- 
rection, and arrived at noon in the camp which had been 
already prepared for me over the bridge on the other 
side of the river Sebu, which is a pretty large one, and 
takes its course to the west. 
Friday, 3 1 May 1805. We began our march at eight 
o'clock in the morning. Our road was for the great- 
est part in the E.N.E. direction, winding continually 
through the mountains till two o'clock in the afternoon, 
when we put up our tents on the shores of the small 
river Yenaul, which runs towards the west. 
The country is composed of secondary mountains, 
most of a chalky nature, now and then mixed with streaks 
of ploughed ground. 
Among the compliments which the inhabitants of the 
neighbouring douars came to pay me, the following was 
the most distinguished. One of the inhabitants, fol- 
lowed by children, and dressed in a white tunic with a 
silk handkerchief on his head, and a silk sash round 
his body, advanced to me. He had in his hand a pole 
of about seven feet long, at whose extremity a scroll 
containing a written prayer was suspended. After hav- 
ing paid me a studied compliment, they kissed my 
hands, stirrup, or any thing they could lay hold of. Af- 
ter this ceremony, they retired highly satisfied. How 
interesting was this simplicity! The mothers were watch- 
ing how I should receive their children. 
Saturday, 1st of June. Having broke up my tent at 
eight in the morning, we took our direction to the E. 
and were for an hour and a half following the shores 
of the river Yenaul, which crosses a long valley. Af- 
