Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . da fat sheep. He was a tall, handsome man, and conductedhimself in a very dignified fashion; the only thing thatmarred his stately bearing being the fact that he insistedupon tying about his neck an empty chutney bottle andthe lid of a biscuit tin I Qrave him. He told me thatneither he nor any of his people believed we had crossedthe flooded webi, but that we must have dropped from theclouds, to rid the country of the Abyssinians. We crossed, on September 9, the little river Darde,and camped at Berbadeh, whe
Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . da fat sheep. He was a tall, handsome man, and conductedhimself in a very dignified fashion; the only thing thatmarred his stately bearing being the fact that he insistedupon tying about his neck an empty chutney bottle andthe lid of a biscuit tin I Qrave him. He told me thatneither he nor any of his people believed we had crossedthe flooded webi, but that we must have dropped from theclouds, to rid the country of the Abyssinians. We crossed, on September 9, the little river Darde,and camped at Berbadeh, where the river forms a smallwaterfall. The country of the Gallas we had gonethrough so far was very thinly populated, though, from THE ARUSA GALLAS. 47 the number of deserted villages we had passed, there musthave been formerly many inhabitants. Until you o-et wellup into the mountainous region, it is dry, like Somaliland,and suitable only for grazing purposes. Towards thenorth it appeared to consist of a series of high plateausand mountain peaks, rising one above the other, while to. \ ; -1 T ~-
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