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none, as the Fiilbe drive their cattle frequently to 
very distant grazing grounds. 
While marching along at a good pace, Mohammedu 
walked up to me, and with a certain feeling of pride 
showed me his fields, " gashi gonakma." Though a 
poor man, he was master of three slaves, a very small 
fortune in a conquered and newly colonized country 
like A'damdwa, based entirely upon slavery, where 
many individuals have each more than a thousand 
slaves. I was greatly surprised to see here a re- 
markable specimen of a bokki or monkey-bread tree, 
branching off from the ground into three separate 
trunks ; at least, I never remember to have seen any- 
thing like it, although the tree is the most common 
representative of the vegetable kingdom through the 
whole breadth of Central Africa. All the ground to 
the right of the path is inundated during the height 
of the flood. 
We had now closely approached the Bagele, the 
summit of which, though not very high, is generally 
enveloped in clouds, a fact which, when conveyed to me 
in the obscure language of the natives, had led me to 
the misconception while writing in Kiikawa my report 
of the provisional information I had obtained of the 
country whither I was about to proceed, that this 
mountain was of volcanic character. It seems to con- 
sist chiefly of granite, and has a very rugged surface, 
strewn with great irregular blocks, from between 
which trees shoot up. Nevertheless, stretching out 
to a length of several miles from S. S.E. to N.N.W., 
