A SPORTSMAN’S PARADISE. 291 much ‘spoken. The district of Liria, to which the Lokoya mountains belong, is the most densely populated Bari district I have seen. It is very mountainous throughout, and contains very lofty elevations, such as Jebel Oppone, the outlying peak of Jebel Tollogo, which in good weather is visible even in the northern Shuli district. Red durrah, sesame, a very small kind of Lubia, tobacco, and two varieties of gourd are cultivated. Khor Loddo, about four hours’ journey from Chief Rugang’s village, Rinyak, forms the boundary between Bari and Latuka. Before reaching it, however, there is a swamp full of Cyperaceze, which the elephants and buffaloes of the surrounding country seem to have chosen for a dwelling, and which takes about an hour to cross. Masses of iron ore lie exposed in the bed of Khor Loddo, totally differing in formation and appearance from the bog ore so common in this country.

The descent, which began at Rinyak, became more and more considerable. The country in front of us once more assumed the form of a large plain, extending at the same level almost to Loronio, and forming, as it were, a second terrace after leaving Gondokéro. ‘Till within a short distance of the station of Okkela (Baker's Wakkela), the yellowish-white sandy soil is covered with open woods of acacias, Zizyphus, Balanites, and other thorn-bushes usually found on such flats. Near to Okkela the woods become more and more frequent, so that the road runs through fine park-like tracts; the dark folage of Kigelias, spreading boughs of sycamores, and pliant branches of Grewias, together with handsome butter-trees, Detarias yielding edible fruits, euphorbias, and dolébs, mingle with other forms of trees, while groups of aloes and nests of Sanseviera are found among them. Khor Ginetti, or Kanieti, the name adopted by Baker from the Danagla, rises in the northern Shuli mountains. In the Bér district, which lies to the north, itis named Chol, and there unites with Khor Koz, which flows down from Tarangole, and loses itself in the swamps of that country. It contains water all through the year, which indicates the existence of springs in the mountains; it lies in a deep bed, the rather high loamy banks of which give its _ water a yellowish tint, and it often swells so considerably after a few hours’ rain that it cannot be forded for many hours.