A DEFEAT OF THE DANAGLA. 301 distant mountain groups of the southern Fajelu district, made their appearance. Our route led over a plateau of ferruginous clay, concealed beneath a layer of sand formed by disintegration ; it was studded with sparse bushes, and intersected by many small water-runnels, which in the kharif help to swell Khor Nyamini. At this time the shor contained a good deal of water. Here our route left the Makraka road for good, and after passing between several picturesque groups of rocks and through some swampy depressions, it led us on to a wide savannah. A tall tree marks the place where eighty Danagla lost their lives, and their comrades had to beat a disgraceful retreat while attacking Chief Langajo’s Nyambara zeribas, which formerly were situated here. Since that time, Khor Nyamini has been called in Arabic “ Khor Temanin” (the “ brook of the eighty”). My guide, Tombe, Langajo’s son, and now chief of this district, was present during the attack, and he now carried a gun which had been captured on the occasion. Khor Berr flows through high grass, which shuts out all view. The Bari eall it Kongolo-Kob, but by the Arabs it is called Khor-et-Tin, because its water is of a dirty white, owing to the loamy soil of its banks. It comes from northern Fajelu, and flows into Khor Nyamini.

After midnight there was a violent thunderstorm, which produced the inevitable confusion that always follows such events; in the early morning all were asleep, so that we did not start till late. The country before us sloped, and was on that account mostly swampy, but marching is fairly easy even through a swamp when a good firm strata of clay les underneath. The whole land is covered with exceptionally high erass, Interrupted occasionally by steppe vegetation and thorn thickets. Kigelias and splendid Dalbergias are very abundant here ; where the soil becomes drier and sandier, dense copses of acacias are found, of two different species, one with white thorns and pink and yellow catkins, the other with long stiff white thorns, two or three of which are often situated on a large black protuberance; the white blossoms of this kind are wonderfully fragrant. Reddish-brown, lofty ant-hills, with crenelated spikes and points, are scattered here and there. Large numbers of pigeons, whose liking for moist ground I have