108 ARRIVE AT miLOGO. [chap. iv. 
to wait unwillingly until 4.30 p.m. The natives having 
finished their boars head, offered to join us; and 
accordingly we rode on a considerable distance ahead 
of our people with our active guides, while the caravan 
followed slowly behind us. After ascending for about 
a mile through jungle, we suddenly emerged upon an 
eminence, and looked down upon the valley of Tollogo. 
This was extremely picturesque.. An abrupt wall of 
grey granite rose on the east side of the valley to 
a height of about a thousand feet: from this perpen¬ 
dicular wall huge blocks had fallen, strewing the base 
with a confused mass of granite lumps ten to forty 
feet in diameter ; and among these natural fortresses 
of disjointed masses were numerous villages. The 
bottom of the valley was a meadow, in which grew 
several enormous fig-trees by the side of a sluggish, 
and in some places,'stagnant brook. The valley was 
not more than half a mile wide, and was also walled 
in by mountains on the west, having the appearance 
of a vast street. 
. We were now about a mile ahead of our party ; 
but accompanied by our two Latooka guides, and upon 
descending to the valley and crossing a deep gully, 
we soon arrived beneath a large fig-tree at the extre¬ 
mity of the vale. No sooner was our presence observed 
than crowds of natives issued from the numerous 
villages among the rocks, and surrounded us. They 
were all armed Ayith bows and arrows and lances, and 
were very excited at seeing the horses, which to them 
were unknown animals. Dismounting, I fastened the 
horses to a bush, and we sat down on the grass under 
a tree. 
There were five or six hundred natives pressing 
round us. They were excessively noisy, hallooing to 
us as though we were deaf, simply because we did not 
understand them. Finding that they were pressing 
rudely around us, I made signs to them to stand off, 
when at that moment a curiously ugly, short, humped- 
back fellow came forward and addressed me in broken 
