2IO Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
to do is for your good. You don't know the customs 
of our country, we do, and must be allowed to help 
you." We resisted, but they urged the indispensable 
necessity of all they proposed. At length we reluct- 
antly yielded the point, and the next day was ap- 
pointed for the purpose. For the present they asked 
for one gora (piece) of calico, declaring it to be abso- 
lutely necessary to conciliate some malcontents who 
were not to be trifled with. This was granted, and 
the piece was at once cut up and distributed among 
a number of Gallas who were then in the village. 
In the evening a band of Gallas collected for the 
purpose of reconnoitring Weichu and Kurawa by 
night. Unable to stand before their foes by day, they 
go out by night in hope of finding them asleep. If 
successful, they spear them and make off, their 
thorough knowledge of their own country giving them 
great advantage in this dastardly work. 
The country over which we have travelled is a part 
of the large tract called by the Gallas Bararetta, which 
consists of the whole territory between the rivers 
Sabaki and Tana ; is bounded on the east by the Indian 
Ocean, and on the west by the district of Mule. We had 
passed through the sub-districts of Jalicha, Kurawa, 
Weichu, and Chaffa, to the west of which are Kofira, 
Goletsh, Kurte, Hames, Balesa, etc. ; while still 
further west are Omara, Ais, Adably, Galole, Hira- 
man, and Kokani. Mule stretches to the confines of 
Ukambani, and comprises Malau, Adel, Komole, 
Ramadu, etc. From all we saw and could gather of 
the natives it is clearly a very fine country, and, lying 
between two rivers, it possesses advantages which very 
few districts in East Africa can claim. 
