ROUTES TO BA'YA. 
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1. Routes to Baya. 
i. Route from Ray Buba to Baya, a little west from south. 
1st day. Hosere Cholle (the " Bird Rock"), a village lying 
round an isolated rocky hill where many of the 
wealthy inhabitants of Ray have second establish- 
ments ; about noon. 
2nd. Bumgorgo (MMm Gorgo), a village inhabited by the 
slaves of the conquerors, and named after an influen- 
tial overseer of that name, in a mountainous district ; 
arrive between four and five o'clock p.m. 
3rd. Salang, a village inhabited by pagans of dark black 
colour, in a mountainous district. Cross, about 
noon, the Benuwe, which is here already a consider- 
able river, although I have been unable to learn 
any thing more accurate about its upper course, ex- 
cepting that it is supposed to issue, at some day's 
distance towards the south or S.S.E., from a great 
mountain with a large volume of water. Arrive 
between four and five o'clock p.m. 
4th. Sleep in the wilderness. 
5th. Baya, the principal place of the district or country of 
the same name. It lies in the midst between a 
forest and the mountains, and is said to be of the 
same size as Ngaundere (see further on). It is the 
residence of a chief named Baushi (a nickname?), 
who is under the supremacy of the governor of Bun- 
dang. The dwellings are all huts. The place has 
no market. The inhabitants go naked, with no 
covering but a leaf. They tattoo their bodies 
in undulating lines, and make a small hole in the 
left nostril ; they have asses, sheep, and poultry 
in abundance, but neither horses nor neat-cattle ; 
they catch elephants, which are very numerous^ 
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