EARTHQUAKE. 69 had been most kind and courteous to me during: my visit.

The morning was very cold when I started ; only 57 Fahr. A march of twenty-one hours, or two days and a half, brought me to Dufli. The first eight hours of our road was through open jungle, intersected by long fantastic ridges of grey bare igneous rocks. In the crevasses between them fine shady forest-trees were growing, among the branches of which troops of small monkeys played. One striking feature was the bold mountain Shua, which rises to a height of 700 or 800 feet above the plain, its western face being a • naked rocky precipice, extending from its summit to its base, down which several little streams of water flowed, sparkling in the sunshine. The road was good ; but many rapid streams had to be crossed, which were much swollen by the last rain.

The first night we were to camp in the open : but the men built me a nice hut, and it was well for me that they did so, for at 6 p.:ii., after a violent shock of earthquake from the north-west, there was a heavy storm which lasted a good part of the night. Next morning we soon reached Khor Nyama, which we had crossed before reaching Fatiko ; it is a rapid stream, which is often quite impassable for days at a time, but, like all torrents fed by mountains, it rapidly rises and falls. It was now breasthigh, and the men had great difficulty in carrying