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" From Sooroo, the next march, fourteen miles, is to Mayen, also 

 called Undiil. Here a well has been dug, and there is now a large 

 supply of water. I tested it just before leaving, and it gave TOO 

 gallons per hour. A little above, at a place where three or four streams 

 meet, is a plain about a quarter of a mile broad,, covered with jungle, 

 and it is this plain, formed of gravel, which, I think, supplies the 

 water at Mayen, where rock nearly crosses the valley. All the route 

 from Koomeylee to near Senaffe, is one valley, with a most gradual 

 ascent, and a very good road is now nearly finished throughout, so 

 that carts can go. Unfortunately the first heary rain will cause a 

 flood in the stream, and half the road will vanish. 



" I stayed at Mayen eight days, running out for two nights to Undul 

 up a side valley to the west, about ten miles from the main pass, 

 where there was water and a Shoho village. From the plain already 

 mentioned, there are seen, to the westward up the Undul ravine, 

 high mountains capped with white sandstone and having a flat top. 

 They are part of the Tekoonda plateau. Sandstone, resting on 

 Metamorphics, forms the whole plateau from Tekoonda to Senaffe. I 

 climbed up to the sandstone but could not quite reach the top. 

 However I obtained the first land shells I have seen ; a Helix, a 

 Vitrina, one large Bulimus, and another, a small pupiform species. 

 When I came back, I found one of my horses sick with the disease 

 that has killed so many of the horses and mules. I gave him up at 

 once ; however, despite every body's prediction, he pulled through. I 

 then ran up for a day to Senaffe, two marches farther : the first to 

 Rereguddy, where there is running water ; thence to Senaffe. To 

 Rereguddy the pass is the same as below ; a gradual ascent between 

 almost barren hills ; but beyond, the hills are green and covered with 

 bushes. About five miles from Rereguddy, the road ascends by 

 zigzags to the plateau : this last, the only steep ascent on the road, 

 not exceeding 800 to 1,000 feet. Senaffe is about 7,500 feet. On 

 this ascent a kind of fir is abundant. It is a stunted tree like a 

 young cedar. 



" I returned from Senaffe to Mayen the next day, and after waiting 

 there a day, returned to Zoulla. Here I found the camp still very 

 large. The railway is progressing, and the train now runs four miles, 



