ganah Shouaas, we had a - better opportunity of observing these curious people : they were a superior class to any I had met with ; they were rich in cattle, and in camels, and seemed to live in plenty, and patriarchal simplicity. The sheikh had greatly encouraged their taking refuge with him on their disagreement with Waday, and had promised them protection, tribute free, provided they were faithful. Both the men and women were comely, particularly the latter, who, when they found that we paid for what we wanted in little bits of coarse karem (amber), with which! I : had provided myself, brought us, night and morning, frothy bowls of milk, which formed by far the best part of our repasts. There is something so curious and singularly interesting and expressive in the Shouaa manners and language, that I am at a loss how to describe it. A girl sits down by your tent with a bowl of milk, a dark blue cotton wrapper tied round her waist, and a mantila of the same thrown over her head, with which she hides her face, yet leaves all her bust naked:;- she says, “ A happy day to you! Your friend has brought you milk: you gave her something so handsome yesterday, she has not forgotten it. O h ! how her eyes ache to see. all you have got in that wooden house,” pointing to a trunk. “-We have no fears now; we know you are good; and our eyes, which before could not look at you, now search after you always: they bid us beware of you, at first, for you were bad, very bad; but we know better now. How it pains us that you are so white!” As we had not more than four days’ provision, I determined on returning after another interview with Barca Gana : we left Tangalia, and returned to the spot where we had left the Biddomassy, and had scarcely pitched our tents when a storm came on, which lasted till midnight: but bad as it was, it was preferable to the stings of the musquitoes and flies which succeeded .it. Notwithstanding we had fires inside the tent, which nearly stifled us, no sleep was to be obtained. On the 11th we arrived at Showy, after a very tedious march, and losing our way for three hours: the woods are, indeed, most intricate and difficult; and: as-all-the Shouaas had moved up towards Barca Gana, we could get no guides. We saw five giraffees (cameleopards) to-day, to my great delight; they were the first I had seen alive, and notwithstanding my fatigue and the heat, Belial and myself chased them for half an hour: we kept within about twenty yards of them. They have a very extraordinary appearance, from their being so low behind, and move awkwardly, dragging, as it were, their hinder legs after them : they are not swift, and unlike any figure of them I ever met with. Passing the Shary was attended with very great difficulty; - the stream was extremely rapid, and our horses and camels were carried away from the sides of the canoe, to which they were lashed: we lost a camel by this passage; these animals have a great dislike to water, and after swimming a stream are often seized with illness, and are carried off in a few hours. July 12— Left Showy, and once more found ourselves at Maf- fatai. The rest, and fish bazeen, with which we were here regaled, with the deep shade of Burmah’s spacious mansion, greatly recovered u s j - The skin of my face all came off, and I slept nearly the whole day after-our arrival: the sun, rain, flies, and musquitoes, altogether had fatigued me more than any former journey. - On the 15th we pursued our route homeward by a new course; and halted close to the Gambalarum, on the-ground the Begharmis had escaped over, after their rencontre with the sheikh : the ground was strewed with skeletons. July 16.—After a long and fatiguing march we reached some Felatah huts, about sunset. The water, after crossing Maffatai, is all sad muddy stuff; and the nearer you approach Angornou, the blacker the soil is, and the worse it becomes. We to-day crossed the Molee, a small stream which runs to the Tchad. The whole df this road, indeed the whole country from Angala, is an inclined
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