i6o SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN 



much the same as the rest of the district. The 

 trees, lo inches or so in diameter and 20 feet high, 

 were scattered at ten to twenty paces interval. There 

 was no undergrowth, the forest fires having cleared 

 the grass. Six or seven miles north of us flowed 

 the Boru. 



On the march my guide, a young Ferogei, hung 

 my water-bottle, &c., round himself in such a way 

 that his arm became " dead." I massaged it with 

 whisky to restore the circulation. He was delighted. 



J. Ringi looked a fine mountain when it hove in 

 sight. It was the biggest I had seen since leaving 

 Europe. It was at a village at its foot that I learned 

 that the arches into which the stalks of the bamia (a 

 vegetable) are bound when dry, is not the play of 

 children, but a wedding ceremony necessary for 

 fertilisation. 



The scenery was very fine. At one place the 

 ground had a sharp drop of many feet. The trees 

 were big, and there was a quantity of bamboos about. 



