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It is therefore evident that those extensive lays in the Nindo and Salawe districts which we crossed extend down to this periodical river, which accounts for there being so many wild animals there: water being such an attractive object in these hot climes, all animals group round it.
This and the former one served as good station-marks for the journey, the latter being visible at eight miles' distance. After the first eight miles, which terminates the cultivated district of Salawe, the track penetrated a waterless desert of thorn and small tree-forest, lying in a broad valley between low hills.
12th. We returned to our former quarters, the village of Salawe; but I did not enjoy such repose as on the former visit, for the people were in their cups, and, nolens volens, persisted in entering my hut.
Fortunately for my mapping, a small conical hill overtopped the trees in advance of our track, at twelve miles from the starting-point. We eventually passed alongside of it, and travelled on six miles farther to a village in the cultivated plain of Salawe, a total distance of eighteen miles.
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