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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. XXXIV. 
to relate an unsuccessful expedition of the governor 
of U'ba against the Kilba-gaya. 
Our camels, "geloba," began now to be objects of 
the greatest curiosity and wonder to the natives ; for 
it happens but rarely that this animal is brought 
into the country, as it will not bear the climate for 
any length of time. This is certainly a circumstance 
not to be lost sight of by those who contemplate 
trade and intercourse with the equatorial regions ; but 
of course the European, with his energy and enter- 
prise, might easily succeed in acclimatizing the camel 
by preparing himself for great losses in the beginning. 
When the range on our right terminated, our view 
extended over a great expanse of country, from 
which several mountain groups started up, entirely 
detached one from the other and without any 
connecting chain, and I sketched three of them, 
which are here represented. Of the names of the 
first two, my companions were not quite sure; but 
they all agreed in calling the last Kilba-Gaya. 
In front of us a considerable mountain mass called 
Fingting developed itself, and behind it another 
with the summits Ba and Yaurogudde. Keeping 
along the plain, sometimes over fine pasture-grounds, 
