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Through unknown African countries: the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu

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1. Verfasser:	Smith, Arthur Donaldson (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Mansfield Center, CT Martino Publ. 2008
Ausgabe:	[Nachdr. der Ausg. London, New York, 1897]
Schlagworte:	Smith, Arthur Donaldson > 1866-1939 > Travel > Africa, East Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte Natural history > Africa, East Scientific expeditions > Africa, East > History > 19th century Africa, East > Description and travel Ostafrika Reisebericht > 1893-1895
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	XVI, 471 S. Ill., Kt. 5 Beil.
ISBN:	1578986877 9781578986873

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adam_text	CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Introductory ................. ι CHAPTER II. Arrival at Aden — Нал Hassan — His Discreet Character — Making Contracts with my Men — Voyage to Berbera — The Start — Description of the Somalis — An Odd Mar¬ riage Custom — Tribal Divisions — The Habr- Awal ... 6 CHAPTER III. Arrival at Hargesa — Cruelty to Ponies — Across the Des¬ ert to Milmil — The Ogaden Somalis — Lion-Shooting — A Curious Hairless Mole — Ar Sessabane — Raids of the Abyssinians — Trees and Fruit — Beautiful Birds — Cruel Treatment of Old Women — Drilling the Boys — We leave Lafkei — An Annoying Plant — Meeting with Capt. C. J. Percival — Unknown Country ahead ....... . 18 CHAPTER IV. Turfa Tug — Shooting Rhinoceroses — A Side-trip to the River Erer — Narrow Escape from a Rhinoceros — We are obliged to lift the Camels over Rocks — A Beautiful Valley — Impossible to cross the Erer with Camels — Return to the Caravan — Mr. Fred Gillett s Lion and Leopard Hunt — We march South to the Shebeli River — The River flooded — Dhum Palms — Great Difficulty in crossing the Webi vi CONTENTS. PAGE Shebeli — Mule caught by a Crocodile — Man drowned — A Mule and Two Ponies lost — First Footsteps in the Country of the Arusa Gallas — We capture Two Natives — News of a Town built of Stone — I discover a Small River — The Gallas are friendly ......... 29 CHAPTER V. The Arusa Gallas — Galla Chiefs tell me of Abyssinian Dep¬ redations — The Country of the Arusa Gallas — A De¬ lightful Change — Excellent Farming Lands — We meet an Abyssinian — Amusing the Inhabitants of Luku — Arrival at Sheikh Husein — Remarkable Discoveries — The Tomb of Sheikh Husein — An Interesting Reception — We find our¬ selves ш an Abyssinian Stronghold — Мт. Abougasin — The Height of Hospitality on the Part of an Abyssinian Officer — My Boys revolt — Cold and Rainy — Mr. Fred Gillett s Elephant Hunt — Miracles wrought by Sheikh Husein — Natives — A Kudu Drive — Summons from the Abyssinian General — Gillett starts for Ginea — A Curious Animal — Guinea-Fowl Journey tó the Abyssinian Town — My Friend s Account ...............45 CHAPTER VI. The Abyssinians give me a Royal Reception — The Town of Ginea — Offers of Wives — General Wal-da-Gubbra and his Family — The Abyssinians — French Influence — I write to Emperor Menelek — An Elephant Hunt — A Great Dis¬ covery — A very Beautiful and Curious Subterranean Pas¬ sage ; the Caves of Wyndlawn — Meeting the Caravan again at Sheikh Mohammed — Long Delays — An Extinct Crater — Beautiful New Bird — We can wait no longer — March to the Budda ............. 73 CHAPTER VII. Surprised by the Abyssinians — The Somalis show their Mettle — A Dangerous Predicament — Emperor Menelek orders us to return the way we came --- gloomy prospects — salan Mohammed — Wal-da-Gubbra not to blame — We bid good-by CONTENTS. vii PAGE то the Good Old Abyssinian General — An Amusing Request from Wal-da-Gubbra s Daughter — Marching towards So- MALILAND AGAIN ---- THE HaWATU AND DARÒ MOUNTAINS ---- I receive a Letter from Emperor Menelek saying that he did NOT FORBID MY GOING THROUGH HIS COUNTRY — We TURN SOUTH — Hopes dispelled — Wal-da-Gubbra and his Army stop us on the Laga Tug — The Expedition a Hard One — Ат the Shebeli River once more ............97 CHAPTER VIII. I send то Berbera for Cloth and Letters — A Raiding Party of Ogaden Somalis — We cross the River — A Crocodile gives us a Chill — A Pleasant Surprise — Christmas with Prince Boris — Charged by an Oryx — I am fortunate in being able то buy Rice — Lions about — New Year s Day Notes — Lions and Hyenas — А Нот Desert — African Childhood — Reports of Small -юх ............. 109 CHAPTER IX Along the Shebeli River from Marakadudu to Bari — Daring Crocodiles — A Native Council of War — Beautiful Birds — I show a War Party of Natives the Difference between a Rifle and a Spear — We astonish the Natives — Geledi and Bari — We wait for Salan — Annoying Insects — One cannot move fast in africa --- flshing --- 1 hold a clinic --- natives become insolent --- frightened by rockets --- my friend s Amusing Story ................123 CHAPTER X. Sad News tor my Friend — Mr. Fred Gillett leaves for Berbera — I send out a Part of My Natural-History Collection — The Whole Camp down with Fever — Off again toward Lake Rudolf —A Case of Blackmail — Much Sickness — African AVells —Game and the Effects of Certain Rifles—Trying for Lions by Night — Among the Dagodi ......135 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XL PAGE Battle between Lions and Hyenas — Shooting a Lioness — Poison¬ ous Snakes — We arrive at the River Web — The Natives flee — Marching down to the Jub — Collecting and Shoot¬ ing — A Fight averted — We cross the Jub, assisted by the Adones, or Negroes — The Dagodi.about the Rivers Jub and Dawa — My Afgab Guide returns to his Tribe — The Beauti¬ ful Valley of the Dawa — Photographs and Provisions DAMAGED ..................144 CHAPTER XII. The Gere Gallas — Frightful Hurricanes — Amusing Natives — The Girls are not Bashful — Intoxicated Natives — Monkeys and Lions — Curious Fish — A Mountainous Country — Re¬ ported Lake — Shooting Waller s Gazelles — El Modu — Tame Starlings — I go on a Shooting-trip — Obliged to throw away Luxuries — My Gun-bearers : Yusif, Karsha, Aden Aoule, and Moga — Distressing Marches to Aimola — We frighten the Natives ............ ιδο CHAPTER XIII. i am obliged to seize native camels --- elephant shooting --- Waller s Gazelles — The Natives are pleased — The Sakuyu Boran — The Boran and their King, Abofilato — Elephants at Close Quarters — Charged by a Rhinoceros — In the Country of the Boran .............174 CHAPTER XIV. The Beauties of El Dere — Attempted Murder — The Gabbra AND HIS OUTFTT ---- DIFFICULT MARCHING — My CARAVAN AT Night — Hawayi Somalis and Gabbra — Ancient Wells at Le — The Natives begin to act suspiciously — More Re¬ markable Wells — Shooting Gazelles in a Thunderstorm — Knocked insensible by Lightning — In Danger from Natives . 182 CONTENTS. ix CHAPTER XV. PAGE The Boran kill one of my Boys and wound Another — Elmi avenged — An Extinct Volcano — In Danger from Abofilato s Army — Exciting Nights — The Battle — Moga killed — The Boran sue for Peace ............193 CHAPTER XVI. A Suspicious Character — Most of my Animals returned — I DETERMINE TO EXPLORE LAKE AbAYA ---- THE ASEBA AND KaRAYU (Boran) — A Cruel Practice — My Present to Abofilato — Through a Rough Country — Old King Cole — Ат Ar- gassa — Abofilato s Son — Shooting Ostriches, Giraffes, and other Game — Lofty Mountains — The Amara — The Death of Prince Ruspoli — I try Amara Hospitality — An Un¬ comfortable Night ...............205 CHAPTER XVII March to the Galana Amara (River) — Shooting Rhinoceroses and Elephants — Inefficiency of Large-bore Rifles — Mos¬ quitoes and Gendi Flies — Camp on the Galana Amara — The Work attached to Exploration — A Big Elephant — I start for Lake Abaya — Two of my Boys wounded by an Enraged Rhinoceros — Difficulty in urging my Men to follow Me — Beautiful Lake Abaya — Much Animal Life — The Coun¬ try to the North, and Theories regarding the Omo River — Many Tribes — Origin of the Galana Amara — Sport — A Hungry Lot ................221 CHAPTER XVIII. Return to Caravan — Night Attack by a Rhinoceros — The Amara displeased because і would not join Them ш their Rato __« Time does not count — Threatening Country ahead — Much Game — Through Dense Jungles — We find CONTENTS. PAGE some KoNSO People — The Camels show Signs of Poisoning from the Gendi Fly — On the Tertala Plateau Lands — Forcing the Natives to trade — An Elephant among the Camels — A Boran Girl joins the Caravan — Ola finds Clothes a Nuisance ..............234 CHAPTER XIX. Lake Stephanie in Sight — The Galana Amara empties into Lake Stephanie — Side Trip to the Lake — Fishes and Birds — Shooting a Rhinoceros — Dodson and I join the Caravan by the River — The Watu — Impossible to cross the Galana — All the way around the Lake — I am at last successful IN JOINING MY LlNE OF MARCH FROM BERBERA WITH THAT OF Count Teleki made from the South — Catfish — A New Lake — A Daring Warrior — The Arbore Cornfields .... 247 CHAPTER XX. Trying to make Friends with the Arbore — I find Myself ж a Dangerous Position, surrounded by Dancing and Yelling Warriors — Treachery — Description of the Arbore — Sounds of War — The Arbore attack our Camp — Fight ш the Bushes — The Three Proud Kings — We camp near the Arbore Villages — I force the Arbore to exchange Many of their Cattle and Donkeys for Trading Goods — The last of my Mules — We visit the Burle — Ola flirts with one of my Boran Guides — The Burle or Bura — Religious Forms — Ola finds a Husband — She describes her Wedding Ceremony 25 7 CHAPTER XXI. I discover a Tribe of Undersized Men and Women — The Dume are suspicious — description of the dume pygmies --- amusing Incidents — The Kuli and Other Tribes — We cannot cross the Aro Mountains — The Bunno — Exciting Times — A Dif¬ ficult Ascent before us .............272 CONTENTS. xi CHAPTER XXII. PAGE The Fourth of July in Africa — An Unfortunate Occurrence — Natives attempt to loot Us, using Bees as Allies — The Amar are afraid to attack Us — Two Prisoners — Wading BAREFOOTED DOWN A RlVER ---- SLEEPY EYES AND ZEBRA Hide get mro a Tight Place — Beautiful Monkeys — After wading Five Days, we leave the River .....283 CHAPTER XXIII. Lake Rudolf in Sight at last — I indulge in a Little Sentimental Writing occasionally — Near Rusia — A Right and Left Shot — Senegal Antelopes — Lagoisi, the Masai — The Rusia are afraid of Us — A Morning s Stort — Natives in their War¬ paint — On Lake Rudolf — Rejoicings — The People of Rusia — An Amusing Ceremony — I start on a Journey to the North — Elgume Villages — Among the Murle — Murle Women badly disfigured — I get an Attack of Fever, and AM CARRIED BACK TO RUSIA ............289 CHAPTER XXIV. A Second Attempt to journey to the North — We are cau¬ tioned AGAINST MEETING HOSTILE TRIBES — LARGE MURLE VlL- lages — Wandorobbo — A Small Lake — Threatened Attack by the Kére — Red Tape — Handsome Natives of Kére — Netting Catfish — Buki — Large Trees — Arrival at Gumba — Three Hard Days Work marching through an Uninhab¬ ited Country without Guides — Marshes and Black Forests, Annoying Weeds and Dense Jungles .........302 CHAPTER XXV. Expecting a Night Attack — We find Ourselves at last in a thickly Populated and Fertile Country — The Friendly and Interesting Mela — A Hundred Miles north of Lake Ru¬ dolf — Country toward the Nile and toward Abyssinia — Mount Smith — The River Nianam — A Second Tributary to the Nianam — Return Journey to Rusia — Astonishment of xii CONTENTS. PAGE the Gumba and Këre at seeing Us again —They beg Me to perform Miracles for Them — Back again at Rusia — Dod- son s Report of his Journey in the Canvas Boat — Hyenas TRAPPED BY DODSON — REFRACTORY DONKEYS — JOURNEY ALONG Lake Rudolf — Tame Zebras and Hartebeests — The Elmolo — Birds and Fishes — Shooting Rhinoceroses, Hippopotami, and Water-buck — Teleki Volcano .........313 CHAPTER XXVI. Four Sporting Adventures : Narrow Escape from an Enraged Elephant — The Rhinoceroses Promenade — Charged by an Elephant — Shooting a Jumbo ...........334 CHAPTER XXVII. We leave Lake Rudolf to explore the Unknown Country to the East — A Risky Undertaking — Much Suffering from Thirst — Charging Rhinoceroses wound one of my Boys and kill a Camel — Мт. Kulol, and its Desolate Surroundings — We find Water just in Time to save us from a Miserable Death — A Long March to the Rendile — The Rendile — Buying Fresh Camels — Marsabit — A Beautiful Crater- lake — Treed by an Elephant — Journey to Lasamis — Shooting Giraffes — An Amusing Request from my Rendile Guide — We reach the Guaso Nyiro — Yusif seized by a Crocodile — I am obliged to amputate his Arm — Our Last Plunge into the Unknown — Three Bullying Rhinoceroses — Camel killed ...............346 CHAPTER XXVIII. Across a Barren Country to the Tana River — On the Equator — At last we reach the Tana — Our Joy at meeting the Rev. Robert Ormerod — A Great Change for Us — A Delightful Journey homeward — Three Hundred Miles m Canoes — Wrro and Mkanumbi — Сакг. A. L. Rojers — Lamu — The Last of our African Home — An Eight Days Sail to Aden — My Boys and I part ............. Conclusion CONTENTS. xiii APPENDICES. PAGE A. Fishes ................... 377 B. Arañen .................. 386 C. SoLIFUGiE, SCORPIONES, ChiLOPODA, AND DlPLOPODA .... 392 D. Lepidoptera Heterocera ............ 408 E. Geological Collection . ............ 423 F. Fossil Cephalopoda .............. 426 G. Ethnographical Objects ............. 430 H. Words spoken by the Konso, Dume, and Arbore Tribes . 444 I. Coleóptera .................. 447 J. Emperor Menelek s Letter (French Translation) . . . 455 Index . . . ·................ 457
adam_txt	CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Introductory . ι CHAPTER II. Arrival at Aden — Нал Hassan — His Discreet Character — Making Contracts with my Men — Voyage to Berbera — The Start — Description of the Somalis — An Odd Mar¬ riage Custom — Tribal Divisions — The Habr- Awal . 6 CHAPTER III. Arrival at Hargesa — Cruelty to Ponies — Across the Des¬ ert to Milmil — The Ogaden Somalis — Lion-Shooting — A Curious Hairless Mole — Ar Sessabane — Raids of the Abyssinians — Trees and Fruit — Beautiful Birds — Cruel Treatment of Old Women — Drilling the Boys — We leave Lafkei — An Annoying Plant — Meeting with Capt. C. J. Percival — Unknown Country ahead . . 18 CHAPTER IV. Turfa Tug — Shooting Rhinoceroses — A Side-trip to the River Erer — Narrow Escape from a Rhinoceros — We are obliged to lift the Camels over Rocks — A Beautiful Valley — Impossible to cross the Erer with Camels — Return to the Caravan — Mr. Fred Gillett's Lion and Leopard Hunt — We march South to the Shebeli River — The River flooded — Dhum Palms — Great Difficulty in crossing the Webi vi CONTENTS. PAGE Shebeli — Mule caught by a Crocodile — Man drowned — A Mule and Two Ponies lost — First Footsteps in the Country of the Arusa Gallas — We capture Two Natives — News of a Town built of Stone — I discover a Small River — The Gallas are friendly . 29 CHAPTER V. The Arusa Gallas — Galla Chiefs tell me of Abyssinian Dep¬ redations — The Country of the Arusa Gallas — A De¬ lightful Change — Excellent Farming Lands — We meet an Abyssinian — Amusing the Inhabitants of Luku — Arrival at Sheikh Husein — Remarkable Discoveries — The Tomb of Sheikh Husein — An Interesting Reception — We find our¬ selves ш an Abyssinian Stronghold — Мт. Abougasin — The Height of Hospitality on the Part of an Abyssinian Officer — My Boys revolt — Cold and Rainy — Mr. Fred Gillett's Elephant Hunt — Miracles wrought by Sheikh Husein — Natives — A Kudu Drive — Summons from the Abyssinian General — Gillett starts for Ginea — A Curious Animal — Guinea-Fowl Journey tó the Abyssinian Town — My Friend's Account .45 CHAPTER VI. The Abyssinians give me a Royal Reception — The Town of Ginea — Offers of Wives — General Wal-da-Gubbra and his Family — The Abyssinians — French Influence — I write to Emperor Menelek — An Elephant Hunt — A Great Dis¬ covery — A very Beautiful and Curious Subterranean Pas¬ sage ; the Caves of Wyndlawn — Meeting the Caravan again at Sheikh Mohammed — Long Delays — An Extinct Crater — Beautiful New Bird — We can wait no longer — March to the Budda . 73 CHAPTER VII. Surprised by the Abyssinians — The Somalis show their Mettle — A Dangerous Predicament — Emperor Menelek orders us to return the way we came --- gloomy prospects — salan Mohammed — Wal-da-Gubbra not to blame — We bid good-by CONTENTS. vii PAGE то the Good Old Abyssinian General — An Amusing Request from Wal-da-Gubbra's Daughter — Marching towards So- MALILAND AGAIN ---- THE HaWATU AND DARÒ MOUNTAINS ---- I receive a Letter from Emperor Menelek saying that he did NOT FORBID MY GOING THROUGH HIS COUNTRY — We TURN SOUTH — Hopes dispelled — Wal-da-Gubbra and his Army stop us on the Laga Tug — The Expedition a Hard One — Ат the Shebeli River once more .97 CHAPTER VIII. I send то Berbera for Cloth and Letters — A Raiding Party of Ogaden Somalis — We cross the River — A Crocodile gives us a Chill — A Pleasant Surprise — Christmas with Prince Boris — Charged by an Oryx — I am fortunate in being able то buy Rice — Lions about — New Year's Day Notes — Lions and Hyenas — А Нот Desert — African Childhood — Reports of Small -юх . 109 CHAPTER IX Along the Shebeli River from Marakadudu to Bari — Daring Crocodiles — A Native Council of War — Beautiful Birds — I show a War Party of Natives the Difference between a Rifle and a Spear — We astonish the Natives — Geledi and Bari — We wait for Salan — Annoying Insects — One cannot move fast in africa --- flshing --- 1 hold a clinic --- natives become insolent --- frightened by rockets --- my friend's Amusing Story .123 CHAPTER X. Sad News tor my Friend — Mr. Fred Gillett leaves for Berbera — I send out a Part of My Natural-History Collection — The Whole Camp down with Fever — Off again toward Lake Rudolf —A Case of Blackmail — Much Sickness — African AVells —Game and the Effects of Certain Rifles—Trying for Lions by Night — Among the Dagodi .135 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XL PAGE Battle between Lions and Hyenas — Shooting a Lioness — Poison¬ ous Snakes — We arrive at the River Web — The Natives flee — Marching down to the Jub — Collecting and Shoot¬ ing — A Fight averted — We cross the Jub, assisted by the Adones, or Negroes — The Dagodi.about the Rivers Jub and Dawa — My Afgab Guide returns to his Tribe — The Beauti¬ ful Valley of the Dawa — Photographs and Provisions DAMAGED .144 CHAPTER XII. The Gere Gallas — Frightful Hurricanes — Amusing Natives — The Girls are not Bashful — Intoxicated Natives — Monkeys and Lions — Curious Fish — A Mountainous Country — Re¬ ported Lake — Shooting Waller's Gazelles — El Modu — Tame Starlings — I go on a Shooting-trip — Obliged to throw away Luxuries — My Gun-bearers : Yusif, Karsha, Aden Aoule, and Moga — Distressing Marches to Aimola — We frighten the Natives . ιδο CHAPTER XIII. i am obliged to seize native camels --- elephant shooting --- Waller's Gazelles — The Natives are pleased — The Sakuyu Boran — The Boran and their King, Abofilato — Elephants at Close Quarters — Charged by a Rhinoceros — In the Country of the Boran .174 CHAPTER XIV. The Beauties of El Dere — Attempted Murder — The Gabbra AND HIS OUTFTT ---- DIFFICULT MARCHING — My CARAVAN AT Night — Hawayi Somalis and Gabbra — Ancient Wells at Le — The Natives begin to act suspiciously — More Re¬ markable Wells — Shooting Gazelles in a Thunderstorm — Knocked insensible by Lightning — In Danger from Natives . 182 CONTENTS. ix CHAPTER XV. PAGE The Boran kill one of my Boys and wound Another — Elmi avenged — An Extinct Volcano — In Danger from Abofilato's Army — Exciting Nights — The Battle — Moga killed — The Boran sue for Peace .193 CHAPTER XVI. A Suspicious Character — Most of my Animals returned — I DETERMINE TO EXPLORE LAKE AbAYA ---- THE ASEBA AND KaRAYU (Boran) — A Cruel Practice — My Present to Abofilato — Through a Rough Country — "Old King Cole" — Ат Ar- gassa — Abofilato's Son — Shooting Ostriches, Giraffes, and other Game — Lofty Mountains — The Amara — The Death of Prince Ruspoli — I try Amara Hospitality — An Un¬ comfortable Night .205 CHAPTER XVII March to the Galana Amara (River) — Shooting Rhinoceroses and Elephants — Inefficiency of Large-bore Rifles — Mos¬ quitoes and Gendi Flies — Camp on the Galana Amara — The Work attached to Exploration — A Big Elephant — I start for Lake Abaya — Two of my Boys wounded by an Enraged Rhinoceros — Difficulty in urging my Men to follow Me — Beautiful Lake Abaya — Much Animal Life — The Coun¬ try to the North, and Theories regarding the Omo River — Many Tribes — Origin of the Galana Amara — Sport — A Hungry Lot .221 CHAPTER XVIII. Return to Caravan — Night Attack by a Rhinoceros — The Amara displeased because і would not join Them ш their Rato _« Time does not count " — Threatening Country ahead — Much Game — Through Dense Jungles — We find CONTENTS. PAGE some KoNSO People — The Camels show Signs of Poisoning from the Gendi Fly — On the Tertala Plateau Lands — Forcing the Natives to trade — An Elephant among the Camels — A Boran Girl joins the Caravan — Ola finds Clothes a Nuisance .234 CHAPTER XIX. Lake Stephanie in Sight — The Galana Amara empties into Lake Stephanie — Side Trip to the Lake — Fishes and Birds — Shooting a Rhinoceros — Dodson and I join the Caravan by the River — The Watu — Impossible to cross the Galana — All the way around the Lake — I am at last successful IN JOINING MY LlNE OF MARCH FROM BERBERA WITH THAT OF Count Teleki made from the South — Catfish — A New Lake — A Daring Warrior — The Arbore Cornfields . 247 CHAPTER XX. Trying to make Friends with the Arbore — I find Myself ж a Dangerous Position, surrounded by Dancing and Yelling Warriors — Treachery — Description of the Arbore — Sounds of War — The Arbore attack our Camp — Fight ш the Bushes — The Three Proud Kings — We camp near the Arbore Villages — I force the Arbore to exchange Many of their Cattle and Donkeys for Trading Goods — The last of my Mules — We visit the Burle — Ola flirts with one of my Boran Guides — The Burle or Bura — Religious Forms — Ola finds a Husband — She describes her Wedding Ceremony 25 7 CHAPTER XXI. I discover a Tribe of Undersized Men and Women — The Dume are suspicious — description of the dume pygmies --- amusing Incidents — The Kuli and Other Tribes — We cannot cross the Aro Mountains — The Bunno — Exciting Times — A Dif¬ ficult Ascent before us .272 CONTENTS. xi CHAPTER XXII. PAGE The Fourth of July in Africa — An Unfortunate Occurrence — Natives attempt to loot Us, using Bees as Allies — The Amar are afraid to attack Us — Two Prisoners — Wading BAREFOOTED DOWN A RlVER ----" SLEEPY EYES " AND " ZEBRA Hide" get mro a Tight Place — Beautiful Monkeys — After wading Five Days, we leave the River .283 CHAPTER XXIII. Lake Rudolf in Sight at last — I indulge in a Little Sentimental Writing occasionally — Near Rusia — A Right and Left Shot — Senegal Antelopes — Lagoisi, the Masai — The Rusia are afraid of Us — A Morning's Stort — Natives in their War¬ paint — On Lake Rudolf — Rejoicings — The People of Rusia — An Amusing Ceremony — I start on a Journey to the North — Elgume Villages — Among the Murle — Murle Women badly disfigured — I get an Attack of Fever, and AM CARRIED BACK TO RUSIA .289 CHAPTER XXIV. A Second Attempt to journey to the North — We are cau¬ tioned AGAINST MEETING HOSTILE TRIBES — LARGE MURLE VlL- lages — Wandorobbo — A Small Lake — Threatened Attack by the Kére — Red Tape — Handsome Natives of Kére — Netting Catfish — Buki — Large Trees — Arrival at Gumba — Three Hard Days' Work marching through an Uninhab¬ ited Country without Guides — Marshes and Black Forests, Annoying Weeds and Dense Jungles .302 CHAPTER XXV. Expecting a Night Attack — We find Ourselves at last in a thickly Populated and Fertile Country — The Friendly and Interesting Mela — A Hundred Miles north of Lake Ru¬ dolf — Country toward the Nile and toward Abyssinia — Mount Smith — The River Nianam — A Second Tributary to the Nianam — Return Journey to Rusia — Astonishment of xii CONTENTS. PAGE the Gumba and Këre at seeing Us again —They beg Me to perform Miracles for Them — Back again at Rusia — Dod- son's Report of his Journey in the Canvas Boat — Hyenas TRAPPED BY DODSON — REFRACTORY DONKEYS — JOURNEY ALONG Lake Rudolf — Tame Zebras and Hartebeests — The Elmolo — Birds and Fishes — Shooting Rhinoceroses, Hippopotami, and Water-buck — Teleki Volcano .313 CHAPTER XXVI. Four Sporting Adventures : Narrow Escape from an Enraged Elephant — The Rhinoceroses' Promenade — Charged by an Elephant — Shooting a Jumbo .334 CHAPTER XXVII. We leave Lake Rudolf to explore the Unknown Country to the East — A Risky Undertaking — Much Suffering from Thirst — Charging Rhinoceroses wound one of my Boys and kill a Camel — Мт. Kulol, and its Desolate Surroundings — We find Water just in Time to save us from a Miserable Death — A Long March to the Rendile — The Rendile — Buying Fresh Camels — Marsabit — A Beautiful Crater- lake — " Treed " by an Elephant — Journey to Lasamis — Shooting Giraffes — An Amusing Request from my Rendile Guide — We reach the Guaso Nyiro — Yusif seized by a Crocodile — I am obliged to amputate his Arm — Our Last Plunge into the Unknown — Three Bullying Rhinoceroses — Camel killed .346 CHAPTER XXVIII. Across a Barren Country to the Tana River — On the Equator — At last we reach the Tana — Our Joy at meeting the Rev. Robert Ormerod — A Great Change for Us — A Delightful Journey homeward — Three Hundred Miles m Canoes — Wrro and Mkanumbi — Сакг. A. L. Rojers — Lamu — The Last of our African Home — An Eight Days' Sail to Aden — My Boys and I part . Conclusion CONTENTS. xiii APPENDICES. PAGE A. Fishes . 377 B. Arañen . 386 C. SoLIFUGiE, SCORPIONES, ChiLOPODA, AND DlPLOPODA . 392 D. Lepidoptera Heterocera . 408 E. Geological Collection . . 423 F. Fossil Cephalopoda . 426 G. Ethnographical Objects . 430 H. Words spoken by the Konso, Dume, and Arbore Tribes . 444 I. Coleóptera . 447 J. Emperor Menelek's Letter (French Translation) . . . 455 Index . . . ·. 457
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