[22] Nala, i.e. the dry river-bed of India, called in Arabia wádi, in Somáliland, tug.
[23] Although at the present time I am not much inconvenienced by the wounds, my right arm and shoulder are very deeply scarred.
[24] Euphorbia.
[25] The Esa sub-tribes are grouped into two great divisions—the Esa Ad or White Esa, and the Esa Madóba or Black Esa.
[26] The Jibril Abokr were deeply grateful, and on our second visit to them they took the trouble to come from all sides to express their gratitude to us for having forwarded their complaints.
[27] We saw also several graves of women. In this country they do not give women the heaps of stones surrounded by enclosures which mark the graves of men. They merely bury the women in the earth, heaping thorns on top to prevent prowling hyænas from rooting up the grave; and in the middle of the thorns they set up an upright stake with the top of a broken hán hung over it; this serves as a scarecrow to keep off wild animals.
Our men, whenever we passed a grave, piously said a prayer and plucked a tuft of grass to throw over it.
[28] A large rounded tree producing quantities of edible red berries. They look like cherries, and have a stone inside, but taste like half-dried apples.
[29] Also called Gol Wiyileh.
[30] Some skill of hand and eye is required in this work. The man above with the empty bucket throws it down to the man below at the same moment that the latter tosses up the full one. On reaching the surface each full bucket is emptied out into the rough cattle trough at which the cattle are drinking, improvised out of a hide propped up with sticks and stones, or in a hollow shaped with clay. Half the water is lost on the way up, so it usually takes many hours to water the enormous herds.