ON LAKE: RUDOLF — REJOICINGS. 295 
1895, and we had been more than one year in reaching 
our goal. In a conversation with Prince Boris, that gen- 
tleman had repeated to me a remark he had made to 
Count Teleki: “I think the ghost of Prince Rudolf has 
been guarding that lake since you discovered it. How 
many have tried to reach it, and none succeeded!” My 
boys crowded around me now, making many jokes about 
the ghost of Prince Rudolf, and shouting to their hearts’ 
content. One by one we induced the Rusia to come 
to us; and then, after an arrangement had been made to 
hold a conference with the chiefs in the morning, the 
feasts of the day were prepared. The delight of my boys 
knew no bounds when I told most of them 1 would double 
their wages for the month of July, and that they could 
expect ten rupees a month extra pay during the return 
journey. 
A large fat ox was killed, and the feasts of the Fourth 
of July were repeated, including a bottle of champagne for 
Dodson and myself. The Rusia were not in the same 
thriving condition as they were when discovered by Count 
Teleki. All their cattle had been carried away by disease, 
them. The only two cases of leprosy I saw on my journey were among people 
who never touched fish, — one at Bari on the Shebeli River, and the other in 
the Boran country. 
Passing on to the south, you get into very rough country. At the south- 
west end of the lake there is an active volcano, and all around are evidences of 
volcanic action. You have to make your way over great masses of volcanic 
débris, and over a country cut up by countless fissures, where there is scarcely 
a blade of grass. 
And now we come to Mount Kulol, the most remarkable mass I have ever 
seen. It is nearly six thousand feet high, and cracked from top to bottom. 
The fissure is only about twenty yards wide, and when you are at the bottom 
of it you can scarcely distinguish individual trees at the top, so high are the 
vertical walls on each side of you. 
There is one island near the lower end of the lake, ten miles long, and which 
contains many craters, just as if it had been intended as a gigantic sieve for 
the products of the terrific subterranean combustion that has cracked and 
tossed the earth and rocks about into chaotic masses all over this section of 
the country. 
