The Fungis.

i6i many places to tlie herbage, already dried up by tlie scorcliing sun, to make room for younger and stronger growths. They kindle the fire, but in the end can never master it, and very often the flames, driven by a favourable wind, destroy plantations and villages over a vast extent of country. If nothing more serious, these fires ruin the trees along their destructive course.

From Agaro to Tumat the road becomes more difiicult from the numerous torrents, which, excavating a precipitous bed in the rocks, impetuously bring down the water, that, during the rains, descends from the surrounding mountains. The beds of these torrents become deeper every year, and it will not be long before some other way of reaching Bciiishangal must be thought of.

At break of day we encamped on the banks of the Tumat, an important river. At the point Avhere we halted it is about five hundred and fifty feet wide, and flows m a nearly straight course till below Fazoglu, where it falls into the Bahr-el-Azrak. It was not necessar}" to be told at day-break that we were nearing the banks of a river.

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