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and Inshallah (God pleasing), we shall be alive when it does 

 come." 



This little accident put an end to my hopes of starting 

 before daylight. It was not till some time after sunrise that 

 we felt sufificiently warmed to face the cold wind that swept 

 down the valley. Breakfast was impossible, as our food was 

 buried in the snow-drift, but I had long since ceased to regard 

 this meal as a necessity. Leaving Yussuf to look after the 

 camp, Fundi and I hurried along the valley to the foot of the 

 old cliff, which must have marked the site of an icefall in 

 the old glacier. Here the valley bent abruptly to the north. 

 We climbed the cliff, and then, turning again to the east, 

 toiled up a long tiring slope, covered with moraine. Numerous 

 dead lobelia stems lay on this, though there were none then 

 living at this elevation. We crossed some dykes of phonolite, 

 and scrambled up some rocks, over which the stream from the 

 glacier plunged in a series of leaps. Above this we reached a 

 platform, upon which rested the end (or snout) of the Lewis 

 glacier. I was greatly interested to find here a series of five 

 small concentric moraines, the 

 uppermost of which has been 

 broken through by the glacier 

 so that it is now re-advancing 

 I rested on the edge of the plat- 

 form, to sketch the moraines 

 and wait for Fundi. That 

 morning he was weak and ill, 

 but he plodded steadily, though 

 painfully, upward. He had often 

 talked to me about the great 

 white fields he had seen with 

 Dachi-tumbo (Teleki), and how 

 bitterly disappointed he had 

 been at not reaching them. 

 He had taken a keen personal 

 interest in this expedition, and 

 his influence with the men had 

 been most useful. I therefore waited for him to pass me, that 

 he might be the first man to set foot on the glaciers of Kenya. 

 He came up, laid his load upon the ground, kicked off his 



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Fig. 5. — Terminal Moraines of the 

 Lewis Glacier. 



