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tlie southern limit in the northern hemisphere of the baohab-tree (Adansonia digitata) ; there were one or two very fine specimens in Ismaen Agha's village.

We started again at 5 p.m., and soon afterwards arrived at a small village, and were told that we should stay the night there. Our patience had been over much tried the last few days by short marches and unnecessary delays, so we flatly refused. Our uide said we must remain ; this made matters worse. We asked, and were told, the direction of Dara ; and as this agreed with compass bearings taken at Fasko, we held a short consultation, and decided to take the matter into our own hands, and give our escort a race. After a good drink of water, we tightened our horses' girths, and mounted. Our guide came to ask where we were going. " To Dara," we said. "You cannot find the way," he replied. " Oh yes, we can." " But it will be dark soon," said he; and, in fact, the sun was just setting, causing the dark shadows to fall and the golden sand to shine more glitteringly than ever.

" There will be a moon," we said, and waving an adieu, off we went at a hand-gallop. Until we obtained horses at Kalaka, neither of us had ridden for some time, and these horses are so very differently trained to English ones, that it required a few days to put us at our ease upon them. The Arabs had been rather incredulous as to our riding