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A negro boy carried his shield, a jacket of mail, and his steel skull-cap, and his arms; another, mounted on a swift mahary, and fantastically dressed with a straw hat and ostrich feathers, carried his timbrel, or drum, which it is the greatest misfortune to lose in action.
The old chief walked ahead like a young man, leading his mahary by the nose-cord. The ground was very rocky and rugged, and looked bare and desolate in the extreme. Several high peaks, which characterise this volcanic region, rose on either side. The whole caravan consisted of about two thousand camels, of whom two hundred were laden with salt.
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