88 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
could go no farther on account of the mountain’s having 
caved in. The other side of the stream, however, con- 
tinued quite open, but we could not cross, as the river was 
too deep and wide. 
The Abyssinian guide said it would be impossible to 
get any food here. We had seen no natives since leaving 
Illahni, where the inhabitants had pretended they were 
unable to feed us if we went to the caves; but the truth of 
the matter was, the Abyssinian was afraid of our going so 
far away, and ordered the natives not to allow us any food. 
I had thought that we might be able to shoot some game, 
but Fred and I were only able to bag four guinea-fowl. 
The next morning, after a hasty glance at the southern 
extremity of the cavern, we were obliged to start back, in 
spite of our desire to explore the caves at length; but we 
did not leave until I had given them the name of the 
“Caves of Wyndlawn,” in honor of my old summer home 
near Philadelphia. 
After sending the camels ahead, Fred and I and a few 
boys skirted the mountain, which rises six hundred feet 
above the valley, to find the southern exit of the river. We 
found the stream rushing forth from its stony bed, after 
having carved a road for itself a mile long in an almost 
straight line south.” At this opening there was a more 
1 I was informed that the river Web flowed into the Jub or Webi Ga- 
nana, being joined by the Denneck just south of the Caves of Wyndlawn. 
Far to the south another river flows into the Web, formed by two streams 
called the Mana and the Wabera, each the size of the Denneck (which is 
twenty-one feet wide, a foot and a half deep, and flows at the rate of three miles 
an hour). The Web and the Mana and the Wabera all arise from the great 
plateau, eight to nine thousand feet high, called the Budda, which lies west of 
oneikh Mohammed. The Web, arising from a high mountain called War- 
goma, is thirty yards wide, three to four feet deep, and flows at the rate of five 
and a half miles an hour as it passes through the Caves of Wyndlawn. I was 
also intormed that the River Jub, which is called simply Canale in this neigh- 
borhood, comes from a country far to the west, called Jum Jum, beyond the 
country of the Boran, I afterwards visited a tribe called the Jan Jams, who 
told me that the Jub rose immediately to the north of their country. 
