Chap. XXXII. THE GA'mERGHU' DISTRICT. 
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times lead to confusion. On one occasion, when I had, 
in like manner, gone on in advance of my people, a 
second party of horsemen, who had likewise left their 
people behind, came between me and my baggage- 
train, and, as they were pursuing a by-way, they laid 
a branch across the chief road ; my people, on coming 
up to the branch, thought that it was laid by me, 
and, following the by-way, caused much delay. Other 
people make a mark with a spear. I and my horse- 
men went to the village and lay down in the cool 
shade of a tamarind-tree ; but we soon became con- 
vinced that our people had not paid attention to the 
mark. With difficulty we obtained something to eat 
from the villagers. 
The heat had been very oppressive ; and we had 
just mounted our horses when a storm broke out in 
the south, but fortunately without reaching us. Pro- 
ceeding at a swift pace, we found our people en- 
camped in a village called 1'bramri, and, having roused 
them, immediately continued our march. Beyond this 
village I observed the first cotton-field occurring on this 
road. The country was thickly inhabited, and gave 
evidence of a certain degree of industry; in the 
village Bashirori I observed a dyeing-place. The 
country was laid out in corn-fields of considerable 
extent, which had just been sown. All this district 
then belonged to Mestrema, as an estate in fee ; but 
after the revolution of 1854, this man was disgraced 
and the estate taken from him. 
I had already felt convinced that the kiika, or 
