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Although the rise was inconsiderable, the importance of the vegetation palpably decreased as we advanced inland. After four miles we reached the Wady-head, and wasted a couple of hours awaiting the camels that carried our supplies. The path then struck over a stony divide, with the Hamra to the left or north, and on the other side the Hamra el-Mu'arrash, made familiar to us by our last march.
The hand of the Moor is clearly to be seen in Sevilla to-day, notably in the Alcazar and the Giralda tower, fashioned by the builder of the Kutubia that stands like a stately lighthouse in the Blad al Hamra. So, with the fascination of the city for excuse, I lingered in Marrakesh and went daily to the bazaars to make small purchases.
These Bedawin make gunpowder for themselves; they find saltpetre in every cavern, and they buy from Egypt the sulphur which is found in their own hills. After a few minutes we left the Harr, which drains the tallest of the inland hillock-ranges, and the red block "Hamra el-Maysarah;" and we struck south-east into the Wady Sanawiyyah. It is a vulgar valley with a novelty, the Tamrat Faraj.
Bahr el Abiad. B. Tiang, nov. spec. Djenke, Tian. Bahr el Abiad, Bahr Ghazal. B. Tian-riel, nov. spec. Bahr el Abiad. "Ouoadembi." "El Mor." "El Khondieh." "Om Khat." "El Hamra."
Lieutenant Yusuf blasted the chocolate-coloured quartzose rock in four places, filled as many sacks, and struck the pilgrim-road in the Wady el-Mu'arrash, leaving its red block, the Hamra el-Mu'arrash, to the left. His specimens were very satisfactory; except to the learned geologists of the Citadel, Cairo, who pronounced them to be carbonate of copper! Dr.
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