TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
311 
as Sunday is looked on by the Kaartans as an 
unlucky day to commence a journey eastward, I 
could not prevail on either the Bangassi people 
or the guide to move until Monday, when we 
left Moonia and travelled ese» over a well culti- 
vated and thickly inhabited country for three 
hours, which brought us to the foot of a rocky 
precipice, extending as fai' as the eye could 
reach in a north-east and south-west direction. 
The path by which we ascended it, was narrow 
and steep, and so much intercepted with huge 
fragments of broken rocks that we found it ne- 
cessary to unload the asses before they could 
pass. The summit presented an extensive plain 
sloping gently to the east and south-east, 
bounded in all directions by high distant hills, 
and thinly covered with stunted under-wood. 
The path which led to the sse. lay over a bar- 
ren soil composed, for the most part, of a slate- 
like stone, in diagonal strata, resembling in 
point of colour the slates of North Wales. 
The sun having set we were soon enveloped in 
darkness. We however continued marching, 
or rather groping our way, in the same direc- 
tion until nine o'clock, when we reached a small 
walled town under some lofty hills, round the 
base of which the path turned to the ssw., and 
soon brought us to Sanjarra, where we halted 
for the night with the intention of moving for- 
