•lYB AFRICAN AVANDERINGS.

conversation of the soldiery, which was neither edifying nor friendly. As we were thus in the Gohr, passing through, each as he chose, without order, crowded together and moving ever on, it seemed to us most wonderful that the Haddenda, a tribe that numbers over 80,000 fighting men, did not set on us, and give us a lesson such as Churschid Pascha had received from them. The army in long column pressed on, in crowded masses, through the Grohr, the banks of which were high, and thickly overgrown with trees and bushes, so all the foe had to do was to post themselves on each side in the thickets, and not one lance would have failed to transfix its man ; cavalry could do nothing here, and the infantry, from its disorder, would have been unable to deploy or get into any position of defence, as the ground would not have allowed of it. The tribe must either have been afraid of the Turks and their fire-arms, or alarmed that their great Sheik would have been instantly murdered. For some 100 paces on the other side of the Gohr, the path lay through trees and low bushes ; then we -again arrived at a country where a thousand determined Arabs, with lance and shield, might certainly have destroyed great part of the army. It was now a dried morass, some half mile in breadth, but of unknown length. Path there seemed none ; for all was so perfectly overgrown with luxuriant uschar (Asclepias procera, L.), young atles, and high reedy grasses, that it was impossible for a foot passenger to make his way through it ; and we, on horses and dromedaries, only got forward with much difficulty, having to tread down the lower bushes, and work our way through, with all kinds of turnings and windings. The Pascha, with some horsemen, had ridden on to form a path, l>Bt found himself often obliged to turn back and seek out an easier and more practicable way. Every one saw the dangers of euch a place, but no one thought of holding their arms ready, when both hand and foot were needed to pull asunder, and make way tlirough the interwoven boughs and branches on every side. The two guns were to be dragged through ; this was only effected, with the greatest difficulty, by a double yoke of mules, and even then the poor animals had almost to lower their bellies to the earth, to at the guns a few feet on. Where the guns went was told by the crashing of breaking bushes, especially