KEEQTO. 323 if a slip had sent us into the rapid stream, no human power could have saved us. After a tiring march of twelve hours we pitched our camp on a hill near another rocky stream, and a second violent storm coming on, we passed another sleepless and miserable night.

It may be well to mention that, when in camp, no one is permitted to go beyond the line of sentries without a firebrand. Any one who is so reckless as to disobey this regulation stands a good chance of getting an ounce of lead from one of the sentries on his return.

We were glad to arrive at Keroto, and to be under the protection of its strong stockade, for all along the route the signals of the hostile natives, such as shrill cries, whistles, blowing of horns, and the wardrum, had kept us continually on the alert.

Exposure to the rain during the past two nights had prostrated my two companions with fever, and was " the last straw " in the case of our poor Syrian dragoman, Nicola, who had been ill for some time, and he died at this place in the course of a few days. Poor fellow ! He little thought that this journey would cost him his life.

Keroto (lat. 4 18' 10" N., long. 31 40' 28" E., 3451 feet above sea-level) has generally been placed on maps too far east. The above position will, I believe, be found accurate ; the altitude has not before been determined. A more picturesque spot Y 2