A GEASS BED. 223 grss made up on the ground. It should be a rule with all travellers never to be without an angereb, for when sleeping on the ground, however good the grass bed may be (and if well made it is certainly very comfortable), ants and scorpions will insist on being your bedfellows, and the fleas from the dried grass are very troublesome. A coil of camels'-hair rope wound round the angereb will keep off all snakes, scorpions, and other plagues ; they get pricked by the hairs and frightened off.

After leaving Kosho we entered an extensive forest, and marched on till the river Sabu stayed our progress ; the banks of this river were about forty feet above the water on either side, and the stream is eighty yards broad. A splendid bridge for monkeys, but not for Europeans, had been constructed here by felling two large trees on each bank ; they had fallen into the water, and their branches were interlaced. A good climber would have had no difficulty in getting over, but we found it impossible to cross it while wearing our boots. The river was very swift, and we had some difficulty in hauling our donkeys over, but after an hour's work this was safely accomplished. Two hundred yards from the bridge was a rapid, and a small hill near the spot served as a landmark for the bridge. This river and the Lugu, which we crossed the next day, are both impassable for three months in the year, during and after the heavy rains.