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CHAR LIV. 
THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRITORY OF MUNIYO, AND ITS GOVERNOR. 
In Shecheri I left my former route, 
December 12th. • J ' 
which would have taken me to iiundi 
and Mashena, and followed a N.N.W. direction, 
towards the mountainous province of Muniyo, which 
before the time of our expedition was entirely un- 
known. Passing through the district of Chejessemo, 
to which Shecheri belongs, we entered a forest where 
the kusulu or magaria *, with its small berries, was 
very common, the ground being covered with tall 
jungle. We then reached the town of Ngarruwa, 
surrounded with a clay wall in decay, and here 
watered our animals. The wells were ten fathoms 
deep ; and crowds of boys and girls were busy drawing 
water from two other richer wells situated on the 
north side of the place. The path was also frequented 
by numbers of people who were carrying the harvest 
into the town, in nets made from the leaves of the 
diim palm, and borne on the backs of oxen. Further 
on, forest and cultivated ground alternated ; and 
* See what I have said about this tree in Vol. I. p. 522. 
