242 G0ND0K6R0 to agaru. 



it. Its sandy bed was about thirty feet broad, and studded with 

 boulders, giving evidence of the force of its torrent ; it only 

 contained an inch or two of water, for no rain had fallen during 

 the past few days. A little farther on we halted upon a pro- 

 minence some thirty feet above the khor, after a march of 

 nearly eight hours. We had now reached the end of the 

 Latuka defile ; on our left lay the spurs, or rather the pro- 

 longation, of Jebel Sereten ; before us the extremity of Jebel 

 Lomu, usually, but incorrectly, styled Jebel Tia, the name 

 of a Latuka tribe, bent sharply to the south-west, permitting 

 the Halanga and Langora mountains to be seen. They 

 looked exactly like a continuation of this mountain, while the 

 isolated masses of the mountains Oppei and Odia, generally 

 named Jebel Madi, filled up the gap. Behind us lay Jebel 

 Sereten ; Jebel Dongotolo and Khofir were far off on our right, 

 and in the distance the Lodio and Kyelamin groups of the 

 Lafit range appeared. 



As soon as we had crossed the Jchor, which we then left for 

 good, we passed out of the Latuka country and entered the 

 Shiili district. Whenever I questioned the Latuka people con- 

 cerning their traditions and genealogy, they invariably located 

 their proper home, or rather the place from which they peopled 

 Latuka, at Jebel Kyelamin, which points to a migration from 

 the north-east. This tribe, which, although surrounded by the 

 Slnili, has managed to preserve such a marked individuality, 

 certainly deserves a more thorough study than I was able to 

 devote to it during my short sojourn in the country. It would 

 have been interesting to compare the vocabularies which I col- 

 lected with vocabularies from the east (Kaffa, Galla), but they 

 were not in my possession.* 



We continued our journey over hard dry soil, which, 

 almost purple in colour, and covered with thick acacia woods, 

 was intersected at many places by countless runnels, and some- 

 times by deep ditches. In clearings we saw many Calotropis 

 and various Euphorbia, one of which is particularly common in 

 the south, and the Acacia fistula was also very abundant. A 

 whole system of brooks converged here into the large Khor 



* [See Index.] They are Masai, as I discovered on examining Einin's voca- 

 bularies. — E. G. R. 



