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my tent, which had been mended by his people, and now stood about three feet from the ground, were placed on the opposite side. The trunks of these trees commonly measure ten and twelve yards in circumference near thè root, and I have seen them covering more than half an acre of ground with their wide-spreading branches. Soon after our arrival, the sultan’s trumpets announced his approach, and he took - up his station, at no great distance, under a tree of the' same kind : he never used a tent, but slept in an open space, surrounded by his eunuchs. At Hairey are the remains of a Mandara town, long since destroyed by the Felatahs ; parts of the mud walls were still standing, and under shelter of these the troops bivouacked. The scorpions, however, made their appearance in the course of thé night in great numbers, and several men were stung by them : on hearing the disturbance, and learning the cause, I called my'negro, and, striking a light, we killed three in my tent ; one of them was fuD six inches in length, of the black kind, exactly resembling those I had seen in TripoE In consequence of Boo-Khaloom’s illness, it was after daylight when we broke up from our encampment, and probably the mountain scenery, by which we were surrounded, could scarcely be exceeded in beauty and richness. On all sides the apparently interminable chain of hills closed upon our view : in rugged magnificence, and gigantic grandeur, though not to be compared with thè Higher Alps, the Apennines, the Jura, or even the Sierra Morena, in magnitude, yet by none of these were they surpassed in picturesque interest. The Efty peaks of Vahmy, Savah, Joggiday, Munday, Vayah, Moyung, and Memay, with clustering villages on their stony sides, appeared to the east and west of us ; while Horza, exceeding any of her sister ! ® height, as well as in beauty, appeared before us to the south, " ’t lts chasm or break through which we were to pass; and the


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