84 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 



complete my misfortune, whilst I was searching ' for the 

 horse my saddle was also stolen from camp. 



After delaying the search until I had only just time to 

 get doAvn to the Takkazzy^ by nightfall, I started, and 

 walked down the steep incline, leading my remainuig 

 horse, who carried my bed, &c. It had begun to rain 

 again, but half-way down the weather cleared up, the 

 rain-storms evidently keeping much to the higher ranges. 

 There was a camping-place half-way down at Muja, but 

 I went on to the bottom, 3,000 feet below Wandaj, 

 crossed the Takkazzyd, here a small stream, and caught 

 up the party with Eoddy's mule-train once more at the 

 camping-ground. 



On the next day we ascended the steep road leading 

 to Santara on the Wadela plateau, and thence went on 

 to Gaso, another camp twelve miles further. There is 

 no very distinct stratification in the Takkazzy^ valley ; 

 and as I did not clearly make out the distinction be- 

 tween the two groups of traps tUl after passing it on my 

 return from Magdala, I omitted to notice if the lower 

 series occurs there. Almost without doubt it must do 

 so, but the road reascends to the horizontal trachytic 

 series on the great scarp south of the Takkazzyd. 



The march from Santara to Gaso, and thence to 

 Yasendy^ and Bethor, led across the Wadela plateau,^ at 

 first at an elevation of at least 10,500 feet ; subsequently, 

 south of Gaso, at a somewhat lower level, Yasendye and 

 Bethor being about 9,500 feet above the sea. In the 



1 In fact, all the northern portion belongs to the district of Dalanta, and 

 only the south-western portion, from Gaso to Bethor, to Wadela. 



