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26 'l'RAVELS IN AFRICA.very handsomely dressed in bis country costume, with silver-môtmteclsabre and pistols, riding a fine mule.He had OIl, to proteet him fromthe sun, an immenseIy broad-britnmed straw hat with a shallow erOWIl,and was; therewith, the counterpart of :the oId woman of Bt:~inford;contravening the taste of Sir Hugh, where he says, "1 do not likewhen a woman has a peart-·l spy a greatpeart under her muffler/'A saint of the Xeriff family next presented himself under observationon the same route. Ile was laidat his lengtband ease in a waggonroofedliUer covered with scarleteloth. This, when laid across. theback of a m!11e, and supportedby a man at each end, eonstituted hisyehicle; asomewhat vacillating one, as may he supposed.-A môuntedArab was this day seen with the true old battle-axe; a short club heavilyironed and spiked at the head.great dexterity.They throw these weapons withAfter three hours ride, the escorthâlted at a broof{shaded by palm-trees loaded with nests of stotks, and adjoining toan Arab eamp, whence were procured good milk and bread. ~verynew appearance shouId set the mind of the traveller in action ror.. infel'ences.That of the birds here mentioned tells him .he is no longer in anarid tract. The Arabs, ta-day, produced for sale a young wild boar. Thisis a still furthereonnrmation ofa change in the soil. 'According hereto,few eountries indeed possess sneh an under proportion of inapplicablesurface: the shifting sands of Mogodor are an of this noble tract betweenthe mountain and the ocean, which could not he made a gardenof:-appIy but the water Jevel and the plbugh-share, and an speeâilyfolIows.How mortifying to see these capabilities unknmvn Jthese bfessingsspurned bya Government embra'cing inJpreference fanaticism and,malignity! a nation of vlctimsJ asocroty ofcritnes ! 'Hard by this station was the hOÎlsé.of âfaD!ous saint,,' in the,aJ!}t'lêÎnwhereof he sat cross-Iegged, with hls rosary in his"haad;auttb'y this