The Finigis.

from Fazoglu with a train of servants and Jelabba. We overcame the most difficult part of the road by travelling for two consecutive nights.

Our march was most picturesque and solemn. Imaofine a niofht as dark as in a dense forest, unilluminated by even a pale ray of moonlight ; think of the rugged rocky paths, on which men and animals proceed with difficulty ; of the silent and measured tread of a long file of men, who, at each rustle of a leaf, at each distant echo, suspect the apparition of a horde of savages, who, taking advantage of the darkness, are awaiting your passage, ready to hurl their lances and sure of their aim ; think of this anxious and mysterious walking by night, as silent as if you were dumb, with people unknown to you — and then you will be able to vividly picture to yourself our caravan which, after ten hours' journey from Fazoglu, arrived at Agard.

It was broad day, but it was necessary to seek quarters where we could rest and recruit ourselves, in view of the next night and the rest of our perilous journey.

Agaro is not a very high mountain, though more than four thousand feet above the level of the sea ; but this is owing to the gradually ascending road, which has brought us to a height of one thousand five hundred feet. Mount Agaro has no geometrical form ; it is divided into several sections, some of which have a pyramidal, others a conical shape. It rises into space like a confused heap of rocks tossed there by some lartial convulsion of nature. It is evidently of volcanic origin.

This mountain arrested our attention because, among the ravines between one mass and another, lay the houses or tukul of the poor savages, and the vast hollows of the whole mountain are filled by such huts ; hence the name of the village, Agaro. And to think that at the foot of the mountain extends a plain on which such habitations might be built with more