150 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
again on February 14, over a mountainous country, where 
the bushes and trees showed a good deal of green,— pass- 
ing many villages and natives with their droves of camels 
and large herds of cattle. 
After spending the night at some water-holes called 
Barmetawen, where the waiter was a little fresher than 
usual in this country, we marched at first in a southwesterly 
direction, over a hilly country, gradually descending towards 
the Ganana River. but this soon changed to a flat desert. 
There was very little game to be found all the way from 
the Shebeli River to the Ganana, only occasional bands of 
oryx and a few gazelles, with the exception of one or two 
places where I found lions and giraffes; but there were 
many beautifully marked poisonous snakes to be found 
about this country, as well as puff-adders and cobras. 
On the 17th of February we arrived on the river Web, 
which I had first seen passing through the caves of Wynd- 
lawn, and here I joined the lines of march of Prince 
Ruspoli and Captain Bottego. Until I was told by the 
natives on the spot, | had no means of ascertaining which 
way these two Italians had travelled. Prince Ruspoll left 
no report of his journey, and excepting a very few natural- 
history specimens which his assistants collected, and took 
to Europe with them after their leader’s death, his journey 
was without result. Captain Bottego did much better work, 
but his map I had not then seen. His reports were pub- 
lished while I was still on my journey to Lake Rudolf, 
and show that he went a long way up the Jub. 
The lines of march of the two above-mentioned travellers 
were marked by continual attacks upon the natives, and 
naturally, therefore, the Dagodi fled as we approached the 
Web. It was along time before I could get any of them 
to approach. 
Just as we were coming to the river bank a couple of 
