222 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

the wind that the whole station was saved from annihilation.

The next morning it was so cold that before starting at 6.30 a fire was very acceptable, the thermometer registered only 58° Fahr. Until we reached the village of Kosho we passed through cultivated land, and many villages were seen. At Kosho the palms are no longer found. The dwelling-places in this part were all built with well-made moulded clay walls ; they also had different patterns to serve as ornaments. A few huts which seemed to be used for cooking purposes had walls of plaited grass and palm-leaves, well made, and having a diamond joattern woven in them, while others had the horns of an antelope put at the top ; and on and near several posts in the village square we found many horns of buffaloes and difi'erent kinds of antelopes. The beds or seats were made something like those in the Monbuttu country, but of split cane ; they were very light, and one was given to me by the chief, but, as the men did not like carrying it, it was destroyed long before we arrived at Dara.

Scarcity of porters had compelled us to leave our own angerebs at Djour Ghattas, and we trusted to getting them at the different places en route ; but our hopes were doomed to disappointment, for often we had none, and those we did get were all too short ; and we most frequently slept on beds of