32 PERSONAL NARRATIFE. 



evening we emerged from the narrow valley we had been 

 traversing, at the very base of the sandstone cliffs which 

 had attracted our attention in the distance, and found a 

 small spring of excellent water. Of course this was of 

 no practical value to the army ascending the pass : it 

 was amply sufficient for our wants, however, and that of 

 our animals, as well as supplying a Shoho village close by, 

 the people from which brought us milk, and were very 

 civil for Shohos. They called their village Undul — a 

 name which has been appHed to the campiag-groimd in 

 the main pass, ten miles away. 



The next day we attempted to climb the sandstone 

 plateau. It was a most fatiguing ascent, through bushes 

 and creepers, most of them thorny, and over very bad 

 ground. We reached the sandstone, however ; but, finding 

 that another long descent and ascent intervened, did not 

 go on to the plateau. I afterwards found that this spot 

 was near Azawat, nearly north of Takonda. The view 

 was very extensive. Over the ranges which hem in the 

 Senafe pass a portion of Annesley Bay and its eastern 

 shore could be seen. The extreme horizon was misty; 

 but, looking to the southward, it was just possible to 

 distinguish a vast sandy expanse, with a peculiar whitish 

 colour, the northern portion of the great salt plain near 

 Amphila. 



The metamorphic rocks extend for a long distance up 

 the hiU, and are capped by about 500 feet of coarse 

 white sandstone. They are much contorted, but preserve 

 a general north and south strike. Close to the spring iu 

 the valley are some highly bituminous schists. 



