[34] The Following Is A Table Of Our Stations, Directions, And Distances:--

Miles 1.

From Zayla to Gudingaras S.E. 165° 19 2. To Kuranyali 145° 8 3. To Adad 225° 25 4. To Damal 205° 11 5. To El Arno 190° 11 6. To Jiyaf 202° 10 7. To Halimalah (the Holy Tree about half way) 192° 7 -- 91 miles. 8. To Aububah 245° 21 9. To Koralay 165° 25 10. To Harar 260° 65 -- 111 miles. --- Total statute miles 202

[Illustration: COSTUMES OF HARAR]

CHAP. VIII.

TEN DAYS AT HARAR.

After waiting half an hour at the gate, we were told by the returned warder to pass the threshold, and remounting guided our mules along the main street, a narrow up-hill lane, with rocks cropping out from a surface more irregular than a Perote pavement. Long Guled had given his animal into the hands of our two Bedouins: they did not appear till after our audience, when they informed us that the people at the entrance had advised them to escape with the beasts, an evil fate having been prepared for the proprietors.

Arrived within a hundred yards of the gate of holcus-stalks, which opens into the courtyard of this African St. James, our guide, a blear-eyed, surly-faced, angry-voiced fellow, made signs--none of us understanding his Harari--to dismount. We did so. He then began to trot, and roared out apparently that we must do the same. [1] We looked at one another, the Hammal swore that he would perish foully rather than obey, and--conceive, dear L., the idea of a petticoated pilgrim venerable as to beard and turban breaking into a long "double!"--I expressed much the same sentiment.

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