SENEGAL ANTELOPES 
LAGOISI, THE MASAI. 291 
Lake Rudolf fifteen miles through the marshes. I saw 
many giraffes and zebra grevil on the last march, and just 
as we were stopping to camp two Waller’s gazelles dashed 
out of the bushes and stopped about fifty yards ahead of 
me. As they were bucks, I fired a right and left at them, 
and dropped them both. The next instant two more of 
the same animals passed close to me, but I did not fire. 
There were many herds of Senegal, or Topi, antelopes 
(Damatiscus gimela) in the plains by the water's edge. 
These are a large red species of hartebeest, with horns 
about a foot and a half long, curving regularly backward. 
This was the first time I had met with this species of harte- 
beest, but I found them afterwards extending all the way 
down to the mouth of the Tana River. Our camp was 
only three miles from the northeastern corner of Lake 
Rudolf, and quite near some villages of the Rusia, a tribe 
of natives discovered by Count Teleki.’ 
Very early in the afternoon a native visited us, who 
turned out to be a Lygop,? or Masai, living with the 
Rusia. We were delighted at this, as both Haji Idris 
and Karsha could speak Masai, and we should new have 
no difficulty in making the Rusia understand us. 
The man did not seem the least afraid of us when 
he saw our rifles and the two white men, as he had heard 
of Count Teleki’s expedition, but walked directly up 
to the tent and greeted us with a smile. He was abso- 
1 These people are called Reshiat by Count Teleki, but the more proper 
way to call their country is Rusia, after the manner in which the natives pro- 
nounce the name themselves. 
2 The Lygop are the forefathers of the Masai, and were at one time the most 
powerful black race in Africa; but in recent years a civil war arose among them, 
in which the sub-tribe, called the Masai, came off victorious. The Lygop were 
obliged to flee from their country and settle among tribes far distant from their 
home; but they were so much superior in intelligence and in strength to the 
other savages that many of them obtained important positions in their new 
homes. The Lygop and Wa Kuafi are the same people, and are related to the 
Burkeneji and Sambur. 
