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manner the town is only very insufficiently protected 
against a serious attack, the inhabitants have the ad- 
vantage of the rocky cone rising over their heads, 
where they might certainly retire in such a case. 
Sunday, I Giire, continuing my march towards 
December 19th. binder no t along the most direct road, 
but with the intention of visiting those localities 
which were likely to present the most interesting fea- 
tures. I therefore kept first in a westerly direction, 
passing through a mountainous district, and further 
on through more open country, with the purpose of 
visiting Wiishek, a place which had been mentioned 
to me as peculiarly interesting. The situation of the 
place has something (as the plate a few pages further 
on, as well as the woodcut, will show) very peculiar 
about it — a mixture of fertility and aridity, of culti- 
vation and desolation, of industry and neglect — being 
situated at some distance from the foot of a mountain- 
range, and separated from it by a barren tract, while on 
ghana ; Bermarili : three places called Kadalebbuwa ; two places 
Maja ; Changa, with a market every Wednesday ; Hogomari 
Ginuwa ; Umorari ; Maiganari ; Falam ; three places Kololluwa 
Donari ; Gaso ; Onjol ; Wonji ; Aladari ; Greniari ; U'duwa 
Koigdam ; Bituwa ; Kureri ; Woriram ; Sheddiga ; Ngamda 
Boggosuwa ; Sha ; Brada ; Garekkhi ; Madara ; Gergeriwa 
Sassudari ; Gasaba ; Maya ; Lassori ; Shut ; Atira ; Ganakta 
Maye ; Kelle ; Aidambe ; Feram ; Hugadebbuwa ; two places 
Felladari; Yemmeri ; Dugeri; Bugu; Ngoliwa ; Termuwa; Guro- 
guda ; U'rowa ; Garruwa ; Farram ; Hosomawaro ; SMshuwa 
Kangarruwa ; Bobot ; Mallem Madori ; Daurduwa ; Deriguwa 
Gujambo ; Warimi ; Gajemmi ; Inyom ; Tserruwa; Mallemn 
Karbo ; Ariwaul ; Dini, and others. 
