288 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
travellers in Masailand, where the skins are highly prized 
by the natives.’ 
Four more days we continued wading down the river. 
The country was nearly flat, but sloping gradually toward 
Lake Rudolf. There were no inhabitants whatever in the 
dense forest that overran the land, and no paths excepting 
those that ran at right angles from the river, and which 
were made by elephants. I saw several elephants in the 
distance, but I did not go after them, as my feet were 
rather sore from walking barefooted. The stream flowed 
in the main southwestwardly ; but, though we marched six 
hours daily, there were so many curves in the river that we 
only made a mile an hour in the right direction. Many 
times we saw troops of Colobus monkeys, and also another 
species of monkeys, larger than baboons, with tails about 
sixteen inches long, and covered with gray fur. 
1 The Masai wear strips of the skin of the Colobus monkey, with the white 
hair attached, around their knees and ankles, and are said to have given as 
much as an ox for a single hide. 
