254 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
feet high. One of my camel-men, named Abdulla Dualla, 
died here of dysentery. After leaving Count Teleki’s camp, 
we found it most difficult to get to the west shore of 
the lake. The ground was soft and muddy, or else 
covered with marsh, through which we had to wade in 
water up to our ankles. With every step the camels 
sank a foot into the mud. To make matters worse, we 
had two small streams to cross with steep muddy banks. 
There were hundreds of catfish in the streams and mud- 
holes, where they had been left stranded after a flood. 
One fish that I poked out with a stick must have weighed 
thirty pounds. There were many crocodiles also in the 
marshes, and my boys had to fire continually to drive 
them away. Once on the western shore of the lake, our 
way was quite easy for us. There were plenty of good 
rhino paths leading along the shore, and the ground was 
hard and firm, so that we could travel quickly. Just to 
our west rose the chain of mountains inhabited by the 
Amar, and which extends the whole length of the lake. 
In three marches we had reached the northwestern 
corner of the lake, having marched all the way around the 
big sheet of water in eight days. The lake is forty-two 
(statute) miles long, but it is over one hundred and twenty 
miles in circumference, so that we made very good time 
indeed. I now made the interesting discovery that another 
lake, ten miles long and from one to two miles broad, 
extended northward from Lake Stephanie to the villages 
of the Arbore. This lake is only separated from Lake 
Stephanie by marsh, and may be connected with it in 
times of flood. 
As I could get no native name for the newly discovered 
sheet of water. I named it Lake Donaldson. 
We rested for a day before going to the Arbore, as it 
was raining heavily and the camel blankets were too wet 
