35o GOK TERRITORY TO RIVERS ROA AND YALO. 



several Negro chiefs, who brought with them small gifts of 

 meal, ground-nuts, round dumplings made of durrah meal, and 

 pots containing very uninviting soup. 



After a good hour's march over the hills in splendid star- 

 light, we reached the little villages of Karro and Koyo, which 

 join one another. We soon left them behind and passed over 

 a broad Mor-bed, containing only a few pools of water ; then 

 on through steppe-wood, where the blossoms of small gar- 

 denias filled the air with their perfume. The district we had 

 just passed through was rendered especially charming by the 

 presence of small woods of tall trees, chiefly Humboldtias, with 

 slender tall trunks, and a few Bassias growing in groups of 

 two or three. I have never seen woods formed of the Bassia 

 except far to the south-east, upon the road leading to Fajulli. 

 Heaps of stones by the side of the road, upon which were 

 placed the two-horned posts I have just mentioned, marked 

 the spots where the inhabitants of two neighbouring villages 

 were accustomed to meet together to abuse each other, i.e., to 

 enjoy themselves. 



Passing by a small pool called Domebra, we came in sight 

 of lofty Jebel Gurken, which we kept in front until we reached 

 the station of Gueri, which is situated on Khor Yalo, not far 

 distant, I was informed, from its confluence with the Uoko or 

 Ombolokko. The Yalo, which makes a bend at four minutes' 

 distance from the zeriba, is eighty-seven feet broad, and was 

 at this time two to three feet deep. It is enclosed by steep 

 banks about eleven feet high. The stream is often bank full, 

 but does not overflow here ; on one side of it large blocks of 

 kidney- shaped ironstone crop out. Numbers of herons and 

 storks were busily engaged in fishing. Buffaloes are numerous 

 in this country. 



