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in Bari, to first and second born male twins. A buffalo herd emerged from the thick brushwood near Khor Kinda, a tributary of Khor Yei, and crossed our road, but fortunately did no damage.

This khor used to form the boundary between the Makraka, who were pressing forward from the south-west, and the Fajelu, who were retreating towards the east. The latter, being in great difficulty, sought the aid of the Danagla, under command of Ahmed Atrush, and were then able to drive back the cannibals; they had, however, to pay a heavy price to their deliverers. About an hour from the other side of Khor Kongoro is the boundary between the Fajelu and their relations the Kakuak, in whose district several of our stations are situated. The district of Kakuak is very mountainous, and the lofty summits of Korobé and. Kurja served us as landmarks. The road makes a great bend round these mountains, which appear to stretch out in a long lne towards the south; the torrents rushing down from the heights glisten like silver threads, and joining form the important Khor Lunn, which we passed before reaching the cultivated region where sesame, Hyptis, Vigna, eleusine, and tobacco grow. White blossoming Tephrosias, on the borders of the fields, are probably grown for use in fishing. Zeribas and fields alternated with steppe and bush; in the latter the large-leaved Anona were conspicuous, while in the steppe there were groves of Amomum, and sedges and gigantic reeds grew in the muddy bottoms of depressions in the ground. Upon the slope of Jebel Kurja, near some doleb palms, was a small village ruled over by a young woman. From this place we climbed up the steep black, bare granite rocks, over which small watercourses murmured. ‘The splendid deep blue Salvias formed a great contrast to the dark red Ipomoéas, which twined about everywhere; cushions of moss and Selaginellas erew along the water.

I was reluctant to leave the very beautiful view here which included the mountains of Kalika in the south and those of Ndirfi in the north. We descended between rocks and over rubble to the level plain, through which many swampy xhors run, and in which we had twice to ford Khor Lunn before we reached the small station of Korobe. ‘This station is situated