290 GONDOKORO TO OBBO.

banks were literally covered with storks (Ciconia episcopus), which seem to make this their meeting-place; the tufted Scopus wmbretta also is extraordinarily common. In the sandy bed of the khor transparent mica scales glittered. I afterwards discovered that they had been washed down from the adjacent mountains, especially Jebel Torkola, which we passed, and where we met with that variety of mica which is known as muscovy glass.

Jebel Torkola belongs to the Lokoya mountains, which, stretching from north-north-west to south-south-east, join the Shuli mountains in the south. Here, they stood like a wall before us; they have always been considered difficult to cross, because of the hostility of their dense population. Even now the inhabitants of this particular part of the Bari district are stubborn, but I have been successful in keeping the road open and preserving a good understanding with the different chiefs. From Jebel Torkola to the defile of Tollogo one mountain group succeeds another, hilly country intervening, covered with dense brushwood, and in parts with very dense bamboo jungle. Petunias of all shades, from pure white to dark lilac, and beautiful odoriferous Crinum delight the eye here. The defile of Tollogo, formed by the mountain groups of Tollogo and Kajumbo, is a narrow valley, with a little brook running through it, and is very carefully cultivated. The population must be very dense; we found the people actively engaged in field work, in which the women also assisted. The villages le, as everywhere in this region, high up on the mountains, each house, enclosed in a thick fence, upon a small artificially formed terrace; the surrounding rocks, which closely resemble the older huts in colour, serve as admirable hiding-places in case of attack, and the numerous stones make still better weapons. Quite peculiar to this district is the practice of fencing-in the fields with the green growing stems of the Boswellia papyracea, the sweet-smelling resin of which is found in large drops between the thin and ragged scales of the epidermis.

A sharp turn round Jebel Tollogo leads to the capital of the Lokoya country, Rinyak, marked on the older maps Rignia. The people here are certainly Bari, but Latuka is