. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of 's government, in the years 1849-1855. hout having any certainty as to where andwhen we might overtake them. The chiefs of Ghat, too, hadstarted in advance. The country had been rising all the wayfrom Wadi Sharaba, which seems to form the lowest point inthis whole region, and we ascended to-day very on in advance of our little troop, and passing a smallcaravan which was laden with provisions and merchandise HATITA. 45 belonging to the pilgrim-cara
. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of 's government, in the years 1849-1855. hout having any certainty as to where andwhen we might overtake them. The chiefs of Ghat, too, hadstarted in advance. The country had been rising all the wayfrom Wadi Sharaba, which seems to form the lowest point inthis whole region, and we ascended to-day very on in advance of our little troop, and passing a smallcaravan which was laden with provisions and merchandise HATITA. 45 belonging to the pilgrim-caravan of the Tawati, I soon cameup with Hatita and his corapauions. They were civil andkind ; but the old friend of the English, who had an eye to a-new marriage with some pretty Amoshagh girl some forty orfifty years younger than himself, gave me sundry expressivehints that I should spare him something of my outfit—either apair of pistols, or a carpet, or a beruus, or any other littlearticle. My refusal in no wise rendered him uncivil. Whilehe was riding by my side, I took the opportunity of making aslight sketch of him, his English gun, the gift of some pre-. vious traveller, forming a striking contrast to his large shieldof antelope hide, ornamented with a cross. Having crossedanother valley of some extent, we descended into WadiElghom-ude (the Valley of the Camel), which, richly clothedwith herbage, forms an inlet in the stony plateau from north tosouth, and has a very cheerful aspect. The encampment,spread over a great extent of ground, formed quite an ethno-graphical museum, comprising as it did six distinct smallcaravan-troops from different parts of Africa, and even ofEurope. Saturday, June Qth. A splendid morning, cool and were happy to meet a small caravan coming from Sudan,which brought us some important pieces of news: first, that 46 THE travellers mishap. they had come to Grhat in the company of five men belongingto the family of Annur (the chief of the K6
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