WOMEN AT WORK. 139 fashion in which they carry on their culinary operations.

A large river flows past lyack, the Ferial, or Welli. The current at this time was about one knot GBOX-P OF AVOMEX AT AVOKK.

an hour, and the water channel appeared to be about fifty yards broad ; but this could not be accurately ascertained, for both banks of the river were flooded for several miles. It was fifteen feet deep. The natives say that it rises in the Nyam Nyam country,