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in Uganda or in Kabrega's country for women, cattle, and 

 brass. 



Soon after this we came to Klior Toclii (Khor Tuslie of 

 Linant's map), and encamped on its western bank. We were 

 now in the basin of the large Khor Kabuli, which is formed by 

 the union of the Tochi and the Korova, and joins the Nile 

 opposite Fauvera. Khor Tochi was at this place about forty 

 feet broad ; the water reached to our knees, and had a very 

 rapid current ; we had crossed it before nearer its source, 

 where it is known as Khor-el-Hamir (a name given it by the 

 Danagla). Khor Shagga joins it above the spot we forded 

 this time. Lions and hyaenas are very numerous, and here, as 

 all over our country, there is a firmly rooted belief that a deadly 

 enmity exists between the two animals, and that when hyaenas 

 conspire together against lions they always get the best of it. 



From a lofty mass of rock, which we reached about an hour 

 after leaving our camping-ground, we obtained a distant view 

 over almost level wooded country, in which the mountains of 

 Moro, Pidi, and Fatiri were visible. The aneroid reading gave 

 the elevation of the country as rather more than that of Fatiko. 

 During the day's march we crossed broad depressions lying 

 between hardly perceptible ridges of ground ; in the rainy 

 season they are probably almost impassable. Khor Poroli is 

 another, and a very bad, specimen of the papyrus swamps 

 alluded to above ; it is very deep ; Ampullaricc Wernei was 

 growing here in great abundance. We took more than half 

 an hour to cross the swamp, which was about seventy feet 

 broad. To the left, and marked by an immense Vitex-tree, lay 

 the road followed by Baker on his first journey to the south. 

 Not far from the swamp is Khor Korova, the largest stream of 

 this region, which, with Khor Tochi, forms the Kabuli. Coming 

 from the Silicat ( ? Shikat), it is here about a hundred feet broad, 

 and its yellow, icy- cold water is breast-high. At the ford it is 

 skirted with papyrus, but the passage is quite open, and the 

 sandy ground gives a good foothold. For more than a quarter 

 of an- hour the khor was on our left, looking like a broad strip 

 of papyrus ; then the road turned away from it up the slopes 

 of the hills, from which we saw undulating woody country to 

 the south. Wild boars are verv numerous in this district. 



