Thereupon he called up his courage and gathering up his skirts, cast himself into the water, and it bore him along with force exceeding and carrying him under the earth, stayed not till it brought him out into a deep Wady, adown which ran a great river, that welled up from under the ground.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
And we travelled to Wady-Azgheer, and afterwards Wady Walas.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
There is a Wady near Ghat covered with senna, during rain, but the greater portion of senna is brought from Aheer.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson