LIONS AND HYANAS. 279 in Ugdnda or in Kabréga’s country for women, cattle, and brass.

Soon after this we came to Khor Tochi (Khor Tushe of Linant’s map), and encamped on its western bank. We were now in the basin of the large Khor Kabuli, which is formed by the union of the Tochi and the Korova, and joins the Nile opposite Fauvera. Khor Tochi was at this place about forty feet broad; the water reached to our knees, and had a very rapid current; we had crossed it before nearer its source, where it is known as Khor-el-Hamir (a name given it by the Danagla). Khor Shagga joins it above the spot we forded this time. Lions and hyzenas are very numerous, and here, as all over our country, there is a firmly rooted belief that a deadly | enmity exists between the two animals, and that when hyzenas conspire together against lions they always get the best of it.

From a lofty mass of rock, which we reached about an hour after leaving our camping-ground, we obtained a distant view over almost level wooded country, in which the mountains of Mord, Pidi, and Fatiri were visible. The aneroid reading gave the elevation of the country as rather more than that of Fatiko. During the day’s march we crossed broad depressions lying between hardly perceptible ridges of ground; in the rainy season they are probably almost impassable. Jchor Poroli is another, and a very bad, specimen of the papyrus swamps alluded to above; it is very deep; Ampullaria Werner was crowing here in great abundance. We took more than half an hour to cross the swamp, which was about seventy feet broad. ‘To the left, and marked by an immense Vitex-tree, lay the road followed by Baker on his first journey to the south. Not far from the swamp is Khor Korova, the largest stream of this region, which, with Khor Tochi, forms the Kabuh. Coming from the Silicat (? Shikat), it is here about a hundred feet broad, and its yellow, icy-cold water is breast-high. At the ford it is skirted with papyrus, but the passage is quite open, and the.

sandy ground gives a good foothold. For more than a quarter of an-hour the khor was on our left, looking like a broad strip of papyrus; then the road turned away from it up the slopes of the hills, from which we saw undulating woody country to the south. Wild boars are very numerous in this district.