22 TRAVELS IN AFRICA.

torn ; here we encamped for the night. We were

all much fatigued, and one of our sick, being

unable to walk, was most cruelly treated by some Foolahs who were hired to carry him. They obliged him to walk to the Parowell,

where, had he not met Mr. Stokoe, who lent him his horse, he must have sunk from weak-

ness and fatigue. When he reached the camp,

he was so much exhausted, that his pulse was

scarcely perceptible, and he was covered with a

cold clammy perspiration.

We left the Koba at eight o'clock on the morning of the 24th, and, passing some large

unconnected lumps of rock of from ^ve to

twenty feet perpendicular height, crossed the

Yangally, a small stream running to the east

over stones and small gravel. Soon after, we

entered a valley, which, although an apparent good soil, bore no marks of cultivation. It is bounded on the right by bold rocky cliffs, be-

hind which, at no great distance, rise a chain of

lofty mountains running se. and nw. At two

p. M. we crossed a small brook that joins the

Dunso, and shortly after heard the noise of the

waterfall, which we were informed was caused by thejunction of that river with the Thoominea. At three, we reached the former, running with

great rapidity to the nnw., and having crossed

it at a ford about thirty yards wide, halted for