IN LIMA. 219 



Lokoya mountains is divided into districts inhabited by various 

 Bari tribes. One of these, which includes the Tollogo valley 

 and the whole of the eastern slope of the mountains as far as 

 Ber, is called Liria. As Rugong, the present chief of Liria, 

 a son of Leggi, who was chief in Baker's time, has managed 

 to acquire considerable influence as a rainmaker and a robber, 

 the name of his district has gradually been extended beyond 

 the boundaries of the district to which it was originally 

 applied, but the Bari still confine this name to Jebel Tollogo 

 aud its spurs. 



The guides drew our attention to a large cave, Kolomello, 

 situated in the midst of a confused jumble of rocks and 

 boulders, which must often have afforded protection from the 

 sun and bad weather to herds and herdsmen. The burning 

 rays of the sun, reflected by the bare rocks, poured upon us 

 like a shower of fire ; heat radiated from the burninsf sandv 

 ground as from an oven ; there was not a drop of water far 

 or wide, only a multitude of singing grasshoppers, whose sharp 

 metallic chirp fell more clearly on the ear owing to the 

 oppressive silence. We were really delighted when the nearest 

 buildings of Rinyak, the capital of the Liria district, appeared 

 high up upon the mountain, and the cheerful clanging of 

 hammers announced the approach to a smithy, which, accord- 

 ing to Bari custom, always stands outside the village. A large 

 plain at the foot of the mountain sinks gently towards the south, 

 and we halted under great butter-trees and fig-trees, to see the 

 chief of the country. He soon appeared, attended by about 

 200 men, and after receiving some presents, kindly promised to 

 complete the number of our porters, asking, however, for a delay 

 until the next morning. I took the opportunity of surveying 

 the country from the slope of Jebel Oppone, usually known as 

 Jebel Liria. A splendid panorama spread out before me. for 

 about twenty different mountain groups were in view, extending 

 from the solitary Jebel Loligono in the Ber (Berri) country, 

 in the north, down past the Lafit range, to the superb Jebel 

 Molong and the two-horned Jebel Ekara, in the Obbo country. 

 I noticed here that the names given by the Latiika often 

 differed entirely from those employed by the people of 

 Liria. 



