WE REACH THE GUASO NYIRO. 
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loose soil, till we reached the Guaso Nyiro. We were 
obliged to carry water the whole distance, and therefore 
had to march long and fast every day. It was very hot, 
the thermometer registering too Fah. in the shade 
A PART OF THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 
PENNSYLVANIA, INCLUDING THE GIRAFFE, ‘‘ CAMELOPARDALIS 
ETHIOPICUS,” THOMAS. 
during most of the time the sun was above the horizon. 
About noon each day I was seized with an attack of fever, 
which made me almost delirious for about an hour, so that 
{ would not be able to reach the caravan until long after it 
had camped. 
