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Sunday, August 1 1th. The good-natured inhabi- 
tants of this douar insisted so friendly on me to stay 
with them one day, that I could not refuse it. They 
did their utmost to make me pass my time agree- 
ably, and I was not sorry for the circumstance, as it 
allowed me to take some repose, of which 1 had great 
need after the fatigues I had endured. 
Monday, August 12th. After having taken leave 
of my good-natured Arabians, we started at six in the 
morning, and made many windings through the moun- 
tains, from which we descended at nine, and crossed 
the river Levenn y which is rather large, and runs towards 
the S. W. We kept along its right bank for two hours 
successively, in a very long plain, after which we came 
again into mountains; and at one in the afternoon we 
fixed our tents near a douar. 
My camp was not far from some rich salt- pits; and I 
was able to distinguish six or seven single mountains 
of the form of sugar loaves. Their reddish colour made 
me suppose th.it they were metallic. 
Tuesday, August 13th. At six in the morning we 
beg < n our march, and continued still between the moun- 
tains till two in the afternoon, when we made up our 
camp near a large douar. 
All the country which we had been traversing belong- 
ed to the province of Hia'ina. 
The ground is composed of round mountains of 
glutinous clay, like those of Tetuan. They are barren 
by nature, but the inhabitants are laborious, and almost 
all these hills are covered with plantations of a kind of 
.panicum or millet, which is much like maize, and forms 
