elal

Updated: May 26, 2025

It is perhaps fortunate that this facetiousness was not witnessed: a crowd of Bedouins assembled below the hill, suspecting as usual some magical practices, and, had they known the truth, our journey might have ended abruptly. Descending, I found porcupines' quills in abundance , and shot a rock pigeon called Elal- jog the "Dweller at wells."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa