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Updated: October 21, 2026
The camels could scarcely walk, and my mule's spine rose high beneath the Arab pad: such are the effects of Jilal , the worst of travelling seasons in Eastern Africa. At 1 P.M. we unloaded under a sycamore tree, called, after a Galla chieftain , "Halimalah," and giving its name to the surrounding valley.
The End of Time, who was surly, compared them to demons, and quoted the Arab's saying: "Allah never bless smooth man, or hairy woman!" On the 8th of December, at 8 A.M., we travelled slowly up the Halimalah Valley, whose clayey surface glistened with mica and quartz pebbles from the hills. All the trees are thorny except the Sycamore and the Asclepias.