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and they always produce white donkeys. It is called ‘ HomarWahsh’ by the Ahabdeh 
Arabs ; but the Arabs of the Eastern desert do not know the name.” 
G. A. Ploskins, ‘ Travels in Ethiopia,’ 1835, p. 41, records that at Grananta, 
immediately above the 5th Cataract, he saw, for the first time on his journey south¬ 
wards from Wadi Haifa via Abu Hamed to Berber, three wild asses which had been 
browsing among the acacias near the Nile.— W. E. m W . 
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