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it. Its sandy bed was about thirty feet broad, and studded with boulders, giving evidence of the force of its torrent; it only contained an inch or two of water, for no rain had fallen during the past few days. A little farther on we halted upon a prominence some thirty feet above the khor, after a march of nearly eight hours. We had now reached the end of the Latuka defile; on our left lay the spurs, or rather the prolongation, of Jebel Sereten; before us the extremity of Jebel Lomu, ustally, but incorrectly, styled Jebel Tia, the name of a Latuka tribe, bent sharply to the south-west, permitting the Halanga and Langora mountains to be seen. They looked exactly like a continuation of this mountain, while the isolated masses of the mountains Oppei and Odia, generally named Jebel Madi, filled up the gap. Behind us lay Jebel Seréten ; Jebel Dongdtolo and Khofir were far off on our right, and in the distance the Lodio and Kyelamin groups of the Lafit range appeared.

As soon as we had crossed the khor, which we then left for — good, we passed out of the Latuka country and entered the Shuli district. Whenever I questioned the Latuka people concerning their traditions and genealogy, they invariably located their proper home, or rather the place from which they peopled Latuka, at Jebel Kyelamin, which points to a migration from the north-east. This tribe, which, although surrounded by the Shuli, hag managed to preserve such a marked individuality, certainly deserves a more thorough study than I was able to devote to it during my short sojourn in the country. It would have been interesting to compare the vocabularies which I collected with vocabularies from the east (Kaffa, Galla), but they were not in my possession.* We continued our journey over hard dry soil, which, almost purple in colour, and covered with thick acacia woods, was intersected at many places by countless runnels, and sometimes by deep ditches. In clearings we saw many Calotropis and various Huphorbia, one of which is particularly common in the south, and the Acacia fistula was also very abundant. A whole system of brooks converged here into the large Khor * [See Index.] They are Masai, as I discovered on examining Emin’s vocabularies.—E. G. R.