This was very trying; but the fact was our guide from Hara hither had enticed a young slave girl to run away, and he had given her in charge to one of his countrymen, who turned round and tried to secure her for himself, and gave information about the other enticing her away.

Nothing can be more tedious than the Arab way of travelling.
_26th October, 1867._--We went S.W.for five hours through an undulating, well-wooded, well-peopled country, and quantities of large game.

Several trees give out when burned very fine scents; others do it when cut.

Euphorbia is abundant.

We slept by a torrent which had been filled with muddy water by late rains.