350 GOK TERRITORY TO RIVERS ROA AND YALO.

several Negro chiefs, who brought with them small gifts of meal, ground-nuts, round dumplings made of durrah meal, and pots containing very uninviting soup.

After a good hour’s march over the hills in splendid starlight, we reached the little villages of Karro and Koyo, which join one another. We soon left them behind and passed over a broad hor-bed, containing only a few pools of water; then on through steppe-wood, where the blossoms of small gar-— denias filled the air with their perfume. The district we had just passed through was rendered especially charming by the presence of small woods of tall trees, chiefly Humboldtias, with slender tall trunks, and a few Bassias growing in groups of two or three. JI have never seen woods formed of the Bassia except far to the south-east, upon the road leading to Fajulli. Heaps of stones by the side of the road, upon which were placed the two-horned posts I have just mentioned, marked the spots where the inhabitants of two neighbouring villages were accustomed to meet together to abuse each other, 7.¢., to enjoy themselves.

Passing by a small pool called Domebra, we came in sight of lofty Jebel Gurken, which we kept in front until we reached the station of Guéri, which is situated on Khor Yalo, not far distant, I was informed, from its confluence with the Uoko or Ombolokko. The Yalo, which makes a bend at four minutes’ distance from the zertba, is eighty-seven feet broad, and was at this time two to three feet deep. It is enclosed by steep banks about eleven feet high. The stream is often bank full, but does not overflow here; on one side of it large blocks of kidney-shaped ironstone crop out. Numbers of herons and storks were busily engaged in fishing. Buffaloes are numerous in this country.