He soon followed, but left our pontoon, saying it would be brought by the head man of the village.

This was a great loss, as we afterward found; it remained at this village more than a year, and when we returned a mouse had eaten a hole in it.
We entered on an extensive plain beyond the Leeba, at least twenty miles broad, and covered with water, ankle deep in the shallowest parts.

We deviated somewhat from our N.W.course by the direction of Intemese, and kept the hills Piri nearly on our right during a great part of the first day, in order to avoid the still more deeply flooded plains of Lobale (Luval ?) on the west.

These, according to Intemese, are at present impassable on account of being thigh deep.

The plains are so perfectly level that rain-water, which this was, stands upon them for months together.