MAKCH. HEAT. WANT OF WATER. SOo inoi-e horizontal. How strong the belief here is in an extreme old age, we heard not only from the old Hakim, but also from the Pascha himself. Li this neighbourhood lives a holy man, who, by all accounts, has seen upwards of 400 years, during which period he has wholly subsisted on milk. The Pascha sent for the holy man, that we might ourselves behold him, but he has not thought tit to appear. Moreover, it is said, that in the neighbouring hills there are many persons of 150 to 200 years old. In Senaar the Pascha had himself seen and spoken with a man of 250 years of age. Of registers of birth there is as little here now as in the time of Methuselah. The people here believe such tales, and a high age, whether real or claimed, gives to the Faki his boasted saintship.

According to the old favourite custom, we were marched out in the noon's heat, and followed back the road by which Ave had come, to the springs. We left the slopes of the higher Abyssinian hills on our left, passed through forests and steppes, Avlicrc we saw only a few cattle, as INIahommed Ehle, the Sheik of Ilallenga, had been knowing enough to have all such driven away, > and to represent his people as a most well-disposed but an ex-/ ceedingly poor race. The Pascha pretends he believes this, although camels are stolen daily ; out of personal revenge, one of his dromedaries has been slain, and on the same occasion one of ours was carried oif. We passed south-westwardly through durra-fields, then south, and at last east, directly in tlie direction of the hill of Kassela-el-Lus. We had to pass many gohrs j full of water; (a bad road for camels, who so easily slip and fall, and sweat, from mere alarm ;) and encamped, at the advice of Mahommed Ehle, on a waterless ]dain, while his own fair village lay j some wav to the left. The soil here seemed, <m the Avhole, unfruitful, and the durra-crops were far inferior to those at El Sofre.

In the evening violent tliirst reigned in tlie camp, and all cursed the perfidious INIahommed Ehle, who had promised water.

The want of water and groanings of the men, set all again oii their legs before day-break, and with music, loud murmurs, and most horrid noises, Ave marched on hillward. The Pascha, on account of these tumults, remained in tlie pass, casting furious looks round him; but Ave, accompanying the advanced guard of