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went slowly forward, through the morning, and through 

 the burning heat of the equatorial noon, until in mid- 

 afternoon we came to the tangled tree growth which 

 fringed the half-dried bed of the Athi. Here T off- 

 saddled for an hour ; then, mounting, I crossed the 

 river bed where it was waterless, and before evening fell 

 I rode up to Juja Farm. 



