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  • Barragid fiumara, and presently exchanged the plain for rolling ground covered with the remains of an extinct race, and probably alluded to by El Makrizi when he records that the Moslems of Adel had erected, throughout the country, a vast number of mosques and oratories for Friday and festival prayers.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Time to inspect the Dihh Silil28, a fiumara which runs from the western hills north-eastwards to the sea.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Darkaynlay fiumara, so called from a tree which contains a fiery milk, fenced ourselves in, — taking care to avoid being trampled upon by startled camels during our sleep, by securing them in a separate but neighbouring inclosure, — spread our couches, ate our frugal suppers, and lost no time in falling asleep.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • After creeping about two miles, the camels, unable to proceed, threw themselves upon the earth, and we unwillingly called a halt at Jiyaf, a basin below the Dobo10 fiumara.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • On the evening of August 11th the captives were led to the high bank of the Wady Sudr, where it received another and smaller fiumara yet unnamed, and bidden to prepare for death.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • On the evening of August 11th the captives were led to the high bank of the Wady Sudr, where it received another and smaller fiumara yet unnamed, and bidden to prepare for death.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • On the evening of August 11th the captives were led to the high bank of the Wady Sudr, where it received another and smaller fiumara yet unnamed, and bidden to prepare for death.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • Journeying onwards, we reached the Barragid fiumara, and presently exchanged the plain for rolling ground covered with the remains of an extinct race, and probably alluded to by El Makrizi when he records that the Moslems of Adel had erected, throughout the country, a vast number of mosques and oratories for Friday and festival prayers.

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • After creeping about two miles, the camels, unable to proceed, threw themselves upon the earth, and we unwillingly called a halt at Jiyaf, a basin below the Dobo [10] fiumara.

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Water, a fiumara running from south-west to east and north-east.

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

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  • A flooded river, a mountain torrent, or the dry bed left by it.

    December 4, 2012