44 
TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LIV. 
Monday, A band of petty native traders or dan- 
December 13th. g aruil f u? w ] 10 carried their merchandise 
on their heads, here joined our party, Their mer- 
chandise consisted of cotton, which they had bought 
in Diggera, and were carrying to Sulleri, the market 
of Miiniyo, where cotton is dear. While proceeding 
onwards, we met another party of native traders from 
Chelugiwa, laden with earthenware. In the forest 
which we then entered, with undulating ground, the 
karage was the predominant tree. Further on the 
road divided ; and while I took the western one, which 
led me to Yamiyd, my people, mistaking a sign which 
some other persons had laid across the path as if made 
by myself, took the easterly one to Chelugiwa, where 
Mele, the lord of this little estate, resided, so that it 
was some time before I was joined by my party. 
The well (which, as is generally the case in this 
district, lies at the foot of a granite mount, where the 
moisture collects) in the afternoon presented an inter- 
esting scene, a herd of about 120 head of fine cattle 
being watered here ; and it was the more interesting, 
as the herdsmen were Fellata, or Fiilbe, of the tribe of 
the Hirlege. The well measured two fathoms in 
depth; and the temperature of the'water was 80° at 
1.20 p.m., while that of the air was 84°. 
Tuesday, After a march of about six miles through 
December i4th. a £ ne coun t rVj occasionally diversified by 
a rocky eminence and adorned here and there by fine 
tamarind trees, we reached Sulleri, a considerable 
place consisting of several detached hamlets, where 
