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25. The Penance of Sanjogata. 



26. Life of Balukaraya. 



27. Defeat and Destruction of Kaimas. 



28. The Fort of Kedar. 



29. Description of Kanouj. 



30. The Huge Fetters. 



31. The Charmed Arrow. 



The following papers, the reading of which was postponed at the last 

 meeting, were read. 



I. Mr. W. T. Blanford's Notes on Abyssinia. 



Senafe, March llth, 1868. 



I went out for a week with Carter (who has charge of the G. T. 

 Survey, to Tekoonda and Halai, over one of the worst hill roads I ever 

 saw. However, it was an interesting trip ; I got a good number of 

 animals, and sketched in the Geology pretty fairly. The table- 

 land here runs out in great spurs of sandstone, and between these are 

 valleys deeply cut into the Metamorphics below. Near this are a few 

 hills of trachyte and basalt, apparently resting on the sandstone 

 unconformably. No fossils are discoverable. I want now to get on to 

 Antalo and see the oolites there ; these sandstones may perhaps belong 

 to them. Whether I can really do any geology worthy of the name 

 or not, depends upon how long the expedition lasts. Hitherto I have 

 done very little, and if all is over, as many expect, by June, I shall 

 not have seen much. 



In Zoology, I am doing much better ; I have upwards of 200 species 

 of birds and mammals, since I left Zoulla ; that is, in less than a 

 month. My last valuable capture was a pair of bearded vultures, 

 (Lammergeyers) and a Klipspringer (Oreotragus) which I shot 

 yesterday. The Lammergeyers abound in this camp, and I should 

 have bagged one this afternoon, I think, if a man had not got 

 in the way. They are very fine birds, though this is the smaller 

 species, (Gypaetus occidentalism Bonaparte, I believe) and measures 

 1J feet less in the stretch of the wings than the Swiss and Himalayan 

 ones. I have also a pair of the curious ground hornbill or Abbagamba 

 mentioned by Bruce (Bucorvus v. Tinctoceros Abyssinicus). They 

 are tolerably common, walk about on the ground and feed on insects. 



