Chap. XXXV. INUNDATION. —YEBBO'REWO'. 483 
Mount Bagele was fast filling with the flood from the 
river, and presented already a considerable sheet of 
water. The country, after we had passed this popu- 
lous district, became thickly wooded, which I had not 
expected to find so near the capital ; and, on account 
of some ravines which intersect it, and of the neigh- 
bourhood of the inlet of the river, it certainly cannot 
afford a very easy passage towards the end of the 
rainy season. Here also the rock projects above the 
plain in many places. 
About eight o'clock, when we had travelled round 
the south-western foot of Mount Bagele, we passed 
through a number of small hamlets, which however 
did not exhibit any traces of cultivation, and then 
again entered upon a wild tract, while we obtained a 
glance at a picturesquely-seated place before us, which 
I unhesitatingly took for Yola, but which proved to 
be a small village situated at a considerable distance 
from the capital. Before we reached it, we had to 
cross a sheet of water nearly five feet deep, and called 
by my companions " Mayo Binti," which caused us a 
great deal of trouble and delay, and wetted almost all 
my luggage. The water, which at present had no cur- 
rent, skirts the foot of the rocky slope on which the 
village is situated, the name of which is Yebborewo. 
Here our camels created an extraordinary interest, 
and a great many women, although we did not attend 
to their wish to stop, managed to pass under the 
bellies of these tall creatures, in the hope of obtaining 
their blessing, as they thought them sacred animals. 
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