298 THROUGH. UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
to the hostile attitude of the natives. Lieutenant von 
Hohnel, however, visited the Buma, a tribe living on the 
river Nianam, fifteen miles from Rusia. ji 
I was most anxious to explore the river Nianam, sup- 
posed to be the Omo, and to visit the very many tribes 
which, according to the Rusia, inhabited the country to the 
north; so after a rest of three days at Rusia I started off 
for a two weeks’ trip with a few of my boys. To give a 
better idea of the difficulties we encountered, I shall refer 
to my diary for a few days. 
“ Fuly 19. Our little caravan, consisting of twenty-nine 
Somali boys, the interpreter Lagoisi, and myself, with a 
few sheep and donkeys, started at eight o'clock in the 
morning for the éerva incognita to the north, Dodson, 
with Haji Idris and all the rest of my boys, remaining at 
Rusia. There were several delays on account of the don- 
keys losing their loads, but at three in the afternoon we 
reached the northern end of the long arm of Lake Rudolf 
that I before described, and camped near two small villages 
belonging to the Eleume. The men of these villages were 
naked, while the women wore a small piece of leather 
about eight inches square suspended from their waists 
in front, but quite insufficient for purposes of decency. 
The Elgume inhabit a large tract of country west of Lake 
Rudolf, called Turkana. 
“I did not-expect to find any Eleume here,-but these 
were simply some poor natives who had wandered from 
their homes in Turkana, and who, together with a handful 
of the Murtu, had taken up their abode near the river 
Nianam. They resemble the people of Rusia, except 
that they are more thickset, and their features are more of 
the negro type. They raise a little durrha, and get what 
meat they can by hunting. Vast herds of hartebeests come 
to the water every night to drink, and many of them are 
