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banks were literally covered with storks (Ciconia episcopits), 

 wliick seem to make this their meeting-place ; the tufted 

 Scopus umbretta also is extraordinarily common. In the sandy 

 bed of the klior transparent mica scales glittered. I afterwards 

 discovered that they had been washed down from the adjacent 

 mountains, especially Jebel Torkola, which we passed, and 

 where we met with that variety of mica which is known as 

 muscovy glass. 



Jebel Torkola belongs to the Lokoya mountains, which, 

 stretching from north-north-west to south-south-east, join the 

 Shdli mountains in the south. Here, they stood like a wall before 

 us ; they have always been considered difficult to cross, because 

 of the hostility of their dense population. Even now the in- 

 habitants of this particular part of the Bari district are stubborn, 

 but I have been successful in keeping the road open and pre- 

 serving a good understanding with the different chiefs. From 

 Jebel Torkola to the defile of Tollogo one mountain group 

 succeeds another, hilly country intervening, covered with dense 

 brushwood, and in parts with very dense bamboo jungle. 

 Petunias of all shades, from pure white to dark lilac, and 

 beautiful odoriferous Crinum delight the eye here. The defile 

 of Tollogo, formed by the mountain groups of Tollogo and 

 Kajumbo, is a narrow valley, with a little brook running 

 through it, and is very carefully cultivated. The population 

 must be very dense ; we found the people actively engaged in 

 field work, in which the women also assisted. The villages lie, 

 as everywhere in this region, high up on the mountains, each 

 house, enclosed in a thick fence, upon a small artificially 

 formed terrace ; the surrounding rocks, which closely resemble 

 the older huts in colour, serve as admirable hiding-places in 

 case of attack, and the numerous stones make still better 

 weapons. Quite peculiar to this district is the practice of 

 fencing-in the fields with the green growing stems of the Bos- 

 wellia papyracea, the sweet-smelling resin of which is found 

 in large drops between the thin and ragged scales of the 

 epidermis. 



A sharp turn round Jebel Tollogo leads to the capital of 

 the Lokoya country, Rinyak, marked on the older maps 

 llignia. The people here are certainly Bari, but Latuka is 



