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CHAPTER XXIII. 
GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY AGAIN. 
BEFORE proceeding with the narrative, it may 
be as well to take a bird's-eye view of the 
country and people we have visited ; also to take 
a survey, as far as may be possible from the inform- 
ation we have gathered, of the territories and nations 
beyond. 
Of KiHma Njaro we have little more to say ; its 
leading characteristics have been pointed out, and its 
" eternal snows " must be regarded now as eternal 
verities." We have just a word to say upon one 
particular. KiHma Njaro has been reported to be 
exceedingly rich in precious stones — at least in car- 
nelian and agate pebbles — and gold. I can only say 
that though I kept my eyes open I saw nothing of 
either. Inquiring for the said valuable vito," as 
they are called by the natives, I had placed in my 
hands a large, red, polished stone-bead, cut into 
facets, of a kind such as is found distributed over 
the whole country, especially among the Gallas. 
Asking the natives whence they obtained them, who 
bored the holes and cut them into shape, they con- 
fessed they did not know, and declared that such 
