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A traveller, even a layman, is bound to put up peaceably with such trifles; and to threaten "combustion" without being prepared to carry out the threat is the readiest way to secure contempt. The Kharif in most parts of the Oriental world corresponds with our autumn. In Eastern Africa it invariably signifies the hot season preceding the monsoon rains.
We passed, on the right, the low island of Masha, belonging to the "City of the Slave Merchant," Tajurrah, and on the left two similar patches of seagirt sand, called Aybat and Saad el Din. These places supply Zayla, in the Kharif or hot season , with thousands of gulls' eggs, a great luxury. At noon we sighted our destination.
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