THE COUNTRY AND ITS HISTORY 9 



others entered the country on similar missions. In 1888, 

 an American naturahst, Doctor W. L. Abbott, visited Kili- 

 manjaro, spending more than a year on its southwestern 

 slopes making collections of the mammals and birds of the 

 region. To his efforts are due the discovery of a rare forest 

 duiker, Cephalophus spadix, a large species related to the 

 West African yellow-backed duiker. This species has not 

 since been obtained by any sportsman visiting the district. 

 He also secured the first specimens of the fringe-eared oryx 

 and of the red forest duiker. Doctor Abbott made large 

 collections of both mammals and birds which still remain 

 the most extensive preserved from the region. 



A year previous to Doctor Abbott's expedition Count 

 Teleki, accompanied by Lieutenant von Hohnel, made his 

 remarkable journey through British East Africa, travelling 

 northward to the Abyssinian border, where he discovered a 

 large inland sea which he named Lake Rudolf, and a smaller 

 one northeast of it which he christened Lake Stefanie. 

 During this expedition he made the first ascent of Mount 

 Kenia, reaching the snow-line and naming some of the topo- 

 graphical features found near the summit. Later he as- 

 cended Mount Kilimanjaro to the ice cap. The trophies of 

 big game which he preserved, however, have never been 

 classified. We have only the account of his travels, contain- 

 ing a brief list of his big-game trophies and notes on his 

 collections of plants and insects, to give us a knowledge of 

 his discoveries. 



No one has contributed more to the literature concerning 

 east equatorial Africa than Sir Harry Johnston. This is 

 particularly true of the natural history. He first entered 

 the region in 1884 and made an exploration of the higher 



