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site to it. I descended some of these declivities to the depth 
where they are washed by the water of the the river in the 
rainy season, and found a great number of rounded exca- 
vations. In the middle of the fall is an islet at the distance 
of about -a short stone-throw from the shore. The river 
above Yallalla winds between two projecting points in a 
northerly direction. On both sides the river, rocky hills, 
intersected by ravines, are visible to the distance of two 
miles. ‘They are all lower than the high platform of the 
hills on both sides ; that on the west continues quite flat as 
far as the horizon. Yallalla may in fact be considered as 
placed in the line of the greatest elevation of the mountains. 
Towards the east the country is more broken, and in some 
places may be called mountainous, but the mountains are 
searcely any where so high as at Nokki. The summit con- 
sists throughout of a hardened clay. 
In the evening we made a visit to the Tjenu, who is a 
plain good-natured man, who expressed his satisfaction on 
seeing a few gallons of brandy, for which in return he pre- 
sented us with some fowls. Scarcely any information can 
be drawn from the natives of the state of the country higher 
up the river. A slave merchant affirmed that he made a 
journey of a month on the eastern bank, and found the 
river, as he proceeded, expanding as wide as it is at Shark’s 
Point. The eastern side of it, he told us, was more popu- 
lous and civilized, than the western side, which they pre- 
tend they do not venture to visit, for fear of the savage 
disposition of the bush-men on that side. Some even as- 
serted that the people on that side are canibals. Our tent 
