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upon a hill, round which Khor Lunn flows, and it is celebrated 

 for its never-failing good water and its invariably cool tem- 

 perature, on which account it would form a good sanatorium 

 for the province ; it is only about five hours' march distant 

 from the station of Ganda. 



After crossing Khor Lunn again, this time by means of a 

 very good bridge, the country began to rise rapidly. The 

 path, which led over yellow, moist, loamy soil, passed be- 

 tween two rows of mountains, the one on the east being com- 

 posed of many peaks, eight hundred to fifteen hundred feet 

 from the road, which was often crossed by spurs from its hills 

 in the form of flat rocky ridges or high Mamelons. All the 

 Mors were contained in very deep beds, but although they 

 were troublesome to cross, the march over the broad road, 

 edged by luxuriant vegetation, was, on the whole, very pleasant. 

 Kigelias and Prosopis laden with fruit, extensive reed-woods, 

 then stretches of high grass with gigantic Echinops, groves, 

 tall acacias, all the bushes grown over with Crucifera, 

 which exbale a stupefying odour, and the white flowers 

 of which shone like stars from the dark green bushes, the 

 road itself being strewn with the five-pointed flowers of a 

 Ksempferia, all combined to form a delightful garden. At 

 ten o'clock in the morning we found ourselves upon a water- 

 shed. All the brooks we had as yet crossed were tributaries of 

 the Yei, or at any rate they flowed to the north, whereas now 

 the streams flowed to the east. This fact is indicated upon 

 Junker's map of the district of the Yei, but the streams do not 

 flow into the Bibia, as in that map, but into the Bahr-el-Jebel 

 between Dufile and Wadelai. The hills around Janda are 

 richly wooded and encircled by small Ichors. The character 

 and vegetation of the country are, on the whole, very like those 

 of north Unyoro, except that there are no banana groves. The 

 place of the banana is taken here by Musa ensete, which is 

 conformable with the altitude of the country. Date palms 

 were noticed near Khor Lekebe, and the bright flowers of the 

 Spathodias were blooming amongst the thick acacia wood 

 which covered the hill of Janda. 



The station of Janda (Ganda), our most advanced post in 

 the Kakuak country, was only erected last year, and has since 



