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They're the most celebrated breed of porkers in Europe. But never mind them now. Which do you spot as our point of commencement?" "Somewhere between where we are standing and that palm-bush." "Very well, then. We'll set to work at the other side of this fallen wall-stone; and here goes for the first drive." For a while we took spell and spell about at the hoe, working like fiends.
After building a stone-man on the finial of the Jebel el-Ghal, and a short rest in the north-western Wady, we remounted and struck seawards. Some ugly divides led us, after half an hour, to a broad Fiumara, well grown with palm-bush, the veritable Wady el-Ghal.
Two countrywomen toiled towards us under their bundles a couple of figures swathed in yellowy white; they gazed at us as people gaze who have few interests in their lives, then smiled and spoke, gesticulated, and laughed again: a herd of goats was outlined on the hill above; the goat-herd called to another far-off brown-clad figure, and the echoes filtered down to us: a rabbit dashed up out of a palm-bush and scuttled away: and then there was silence profound, and we paced on eastwards, talking and singing a song sometimes, while the sun climbed right-handed.
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