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Having skirted the sea for two hours, I rode off with the End of Time to inspect the Dihh Silil , a fiumara which runs from the western hills north-eastwards to the sea. Its course is marked by a long line of graceful tamarisks, whose vivid green looked doubly bright set off by tawny stubble and amethyst-blue sky. These freshets are the Edens of Adel.
Everywhere the surface was burnt up by the sun, and withered from want of rain. Towards evening we entered a broad slope called by the Somal Dihh Murodi, or Murodilay, the Elephants' Valley. Crossing its breadth from west to east, we traversed two Fiumaras, the nearer "Hamar," the further "Las Dorhhay," or the Tamarisk waterholes.
The "Dihh" is the Arab "Wady", a fiumara or freshet. I saw these Dihhs only in the dry season; at times the torrent must be violent, cutting ten or twelve feet deep into the plain. The name is derived from Kuranyo, an ant: it means the "place of ants," and is so called from the abundance of a tree which attracts them. The Arabs call these pillars "Devils," the Somal "Sigo."
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