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and as an extra precaution had procured, while at Aden, 

 thirty goat-skin water-bags, each capable of holding two 

 gallons. We had on the present trip but twelve of 

 these goat-skin water-bags, as our means of transport 

 would not permit taking a greater number. These 

 water-bags do very well if carefully handled, but after 

 being carried for a few days the water they contain 

 assumes a most disagreeable flavour. 



Baobab Tree 



We filled these water-bags, and on December 22 

 set out upon our journey. We made our camp two 

 miles to the northwest of Kora crater, beneath a giant 

 baobab, the girth of which was forty-eight feet. We 

 were fortunate enough to find near this a little pool of 

 stagnant water left by the rains. The mountain range 

 proper ends at Kora, but for some miles to the north 

 there are a number of craters of different sizes, mostly 



