THE EASTERN PROVINCE 



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perch themselves like fantastic Egyptian sculptures on every pinnacle or 

 boulder. On the grassy uplands skirting the precipices the sleek cattle 

 of the Masai are feeding, accompanied by herdsmen like Greek statues 

 in terra cotta, these pastoral scenes having for a background the ultra- 

 marine waters of the lake 1,000 feet below. 



Two or three days' journey over grassy downs where the zebras browse 

 in their thousands, where the climate is European, and the heart is glad 

 with the delicious air and the harmless sunshine, would bring one from 

 Nakuro northwards to a more broken surface of the Kift A'allev, where its 





II. UKAli I'KKES STAXDIXG FAK . OUT IX THE WATER OF LAKE HAXXIXGTON 



northern descent in altitude commences. Hidden away in a little rift 

 valley of its own, a longitudinal trough between the Laikipia Escarpment 

 and an up-reared ridge of volcanic rocks, lies little Eake Hannington, so 

 concealed that it was long overlooked by the great explorers, and when 

 found was named, ]ierhaps not imjustly, after the misguided but plucky 

 missionary bishop wlio tried to enter Uganda by the forbidden route and 

 was slain in con.>-equence by the uneasy Mwanga. It might he possible 

 for a short-sighted man to walk parallel with the west coast of Lake 

 Hannington and overlook the fact that he had a long sheet of water on 

 his right-hand side, for the opposite Laikipia Escarpment is so lofty that 



