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VILLAGE OF APUDDO. 
were able to walk about with comfort. A coat was 
then bearable, and during the night we wore sheets 
of serge to keep us warm. Rain was noted in my 
journal on the 12th of January from the N.E., and 
another note mentions at this time, wind "all day 
N.N.W., blowing with great freshness." 
Provisions — namely, koonde, murwa, and jowari — 
were scarce and dear in the villages opposite Jubl Koo- 
koo during the month of January, which was their win- 
ter season. Large figs, called M'kooyoo, though thick- 
skinned and full of seeds, were now sweet and palatable. 
No crops were seen growing — all looked desolate 
wastes and covers. Even the stream which flowed 
past Apuddo, for three miles up its tortuous course had 
not a thicket to mark its windings through the plain. 
The banks dropped straight down fifteen feet to its 
sandy bed, which was sometimes broken by grass- 
topped and fissured rocks, and in places by ridges of 
rock, making a cataract or waterfall. Above this, in 
one reach two hundred yards long, the water lay deep 
and almost still, teeming with fish two and three feet 
in length. We had no means of catching them, and 
the natives did not use nets, but most likely they had 
basket-traps. 
The people dwelt in villages surrounded by pali- 
sades. Some of these villages contained two hundred 
souls, young and old. It would not be considered 
safe to have a much smaller settlement, as their neigh- 
bours to the east, the Kidi, would come down to 
plunder them of their herds of cattle. We observed 
a leper with white hands and limbs. Whether he had 
succeeded by right to his position of "M'koongoo," 
or head of a district, or whether from being looked 
