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uncouth though; joyous manner. The women all assemble at,a certain part of the circle, sitting on the ground with their faces covered,- and. salute the most active with loud screams of approbation. . :.. June 24.—We crossed the Shary with but little less water than we had found six months before, and passing the day on the east bank, we moved again in the evening: we saw twelve crocodiles basking on the'banks. A large party of Shouaas were passing on rafts, swimming Their sheep and bullocks, which they drive over in flocks, one being first forced into the river, and, dragged over by a line run through the cartilage of the nose. Women often perform this duty, showing great strength and agility in swimming and curbing these powerful animals.. We made nine miles, passed quantities of ohrwka (castor-nut tree), and at noon arrived at lake Hamese, which is part of the Tchad, and halted at some Shouaa huts of the Beni Hassan tribe, at a place called Zeabra. In continuation of our course, we halted, in the afternoon, at Berbeeta, where we encountered a terrible storm, and were sadly bitten by mosquitoes. A little to the northward of the road, and at the head of the lake Hamese, are some very curious rocks of red granite standing in an immense plain, at a great distance from any mountains of a corresponding structure : one is of a conical form, and distant aboiit three hundred yards from the others, which are connected. The space between K q u Abdallah, the name of the first, and the other three is covered with loose fragments of rock of different sizes, and it is natural to suppose they were all formerly united : the three are called Hager Teous by the Bornouese, and by the Shouaa Bete Nibbe Mohammed I had dismounted for the purpose of approaching nearer to the base of the single rock, over the broken fragments, by which it was surrounded, principally for the purpose of procuring some specimens; when those who were waiting in 'th e plain exclaimed, “ A lion ! a.lion ! a lion !” I began to look around me with great anxiety, and quickly perceived a large female panther, big with


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