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the number of deserted villages we had passed, there must 
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have been formerly ne inhabitants. Until you get well 
up into the mountainous region, it is dry, like Somaliland 
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and suitable only for grazing purposes. Towards the 
north it appeared to consist of a series of high plateaus 
and mountain peaks, rising one above the other, while to 
GROUP OF ARUSA GALLAS. 
From a Photograph by F. Gillett. 
the south a great extent of low-lying, bushy country, con- 
taining only a few isolated, outstanding eminences, rising 
to varying heights of from one to three thousand feet, 
spread out far below us. We now commenced to rise 
rapidly, reaching, at the end of the next day’s march, an 
elevation of three thousand eight hundred feet. The 
weather was cloudy and cool, and we began to feel a few 
rain-drops. 
