OBTAINING FIRE. 191 the hands rapidly, the reed being held fast by the feet. Some tribes use a bow to turn the wood as a German drill is still used ; and from the friction fire is obtained in twenty or thirty seconds.

We rested until the moon was up, and then continued our march for several hours ; during this march a rather comical, but at the same time unpleasant, incident occurred. Mr. Wilson was walking in front of me, and stopped at my request to give me a light for my pipe. Unfortunately for us, we halted just on an ant run, and in a few seconds we were dancing about in agony ; for the ants ran up our legs and were biting most vigorously ; and the bite of these ants, which were large ones, is as if a red-hot needle were run into the flesh. We had to light a quantity of grass to see to catch them, and by the time it was accomplished our legs were in a sad state.

The next day an eight hours' march brought us to Dem Suleiman—the Dem Sebehr of Schweinfiirth. Up to Khor Eanam the road still led through a forest, which was very thick, but not so dense as the one between Pizelia and Dem Idris. Khor Eanam, at the point where we crossed it, is very beautiful ; the bed of the river is rocky, and it runs through a rocky defile about a hundred feet deep. A treebridge crosses the stream, but at this time of the year the water was only three feet deep. We rested for an hour, and some of our party bathed in the