70 PIERSONAL NARRATIVE. 



At Buya I heard that the army was but little beyond 

 Lat, about six marches ahead ; but it was still supposed 

 to be but two or three marches from Magdala. T halted 

 for a day, buying a couple of fresh mules to replace those 

 which had broken down. One of the new ones objected 

 to be saddled. I obtained the assistance of some Egyp- 

 tian muleteers from the Transport Train, and they very 

 soon put a Punjab pad on by main force, three or four 

 powerful men absolutely holding the mule down while 

 a couple of others strapped on the pad. 



The next day, March 30th, I re-started, and made a 

 double march to Meshek, thus catching up Captain 

 Eoddy's mule-train once more. The first part of the 

 march to Musgi is over country composed of lime- 

 stone, precisely similar to that traversed north of Antalo. 

 Interstratifications of trap are very frequently seen, and 

 one in especial occurs close to the camping-ground at 

 Musgi. A small stream emerges from the little plain 

 in front of the camp, through a narrow gorge iu the 

 limestone, which is here horizontal, or nearly so. The 

 stream, almost immediately after leaving the plain, cuts 

 into a bed of basalt underlying the limestone, and this 

 basalt forms the channel of the stream for a considerable 

 distance. It has a very low dip, about 2° or 3°, to the 

 west. The whole of the beds are then cut off by a fault 

 striking 1 5° west of south, with an upthrow to the west ; 

 and the same bed of trap, about 100 feet in thickness, is 

 seen on the hill-side, with limestone both above and 

 below it. 



I had ridden to Musgi with my mules ; but thence 



