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same group ; neither of them, however, build their nests in the huts. Altogether, the feathered fauna of this country is more closely allied to that of Abyssinia and the Somal country than to that of our province.

The march from Agaru to Fadibék is accomplished by the natives, and also by our own men when they have no baggage, in one day, although we spent exactly eleven hours fifty-five minutes over it, marching rapidly. The Langia range, with its summit Logiteli, crowned by the village of Loggede, pushes its last offshoot, the small round peak of Lara, far out into the bush; here the first halt is usually made beside a pool, round which flutter hundreds of small white butterflies with redtipped wings. From this point another mountain range, known as Jebel Julu (?), forms a crescent towards the west. Our road followed the chord of this arc through thick forest and occasionally high reeds, the ground being frequently intersected by narrow yawning clefts. A rather steep descent marked the extremity of the range, and then, to the right, the long chain of Laburomor came suddenly into sight; it seemed to run partly behind the other range. In front of us, but a little to the right, rose the grand Jebel Lamo, between it and Laburomor the summit of Jebel Ageu was visible for a moment, and at the extreme end of the Lamo, which has a north and south axis, Jebel Lalak and Jebel Latjiet (Fadibek) made their appearance.

he country, covered with bushes and briars, was very monotonous, for the view towards the mountains in the east was shut out by high grass. <A luxuriant bed of reeds preceded the belt of wood by Khor Arenga, which flows to the south-southeast, and though only sixteen feet broad, contains a very strong current of cold yellow muddy water, reaching up to the knee (it is never lower). The springs which feed it lie in the Laburomor mountains; it empties itself, as we discovered afterwards, into Khor Bagger. The large village of Uong stands on the heights of Jebel Lamo, and its fields, which are subject to the ravages of thousands of finches, extend along the foot of the mountain. Jebel Lamo is often called Jebel Falogga, after a large Negro village, one of ten that are situated on its flanks.