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IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA chap. 



some forty or fifty feet down into a beautiful basin, 

 all covered with oreen trees, shrubs, and creepers. 

 Indeed, Abbudi informed me that the name Murra- 

 med-et means "Falling Water" in Masai. Early 

 in the afternoon I observed a horseman riding 

 towards our camp, and from him we at last go 



•OUR CAMl'ING-PLACE WAS JUST BESIDE A BEAUTIFUl 



news of our missing friends. It turned out that 

 they had taken a wrong turning, and had spent the 

 night without food in the jungle, and were now a 

 good many miles away, sadly in need of their safari. 

 We at once sent their porters and camp kit across 

 country to them in charge of the horseman, and 

 under the guidance of Mellauw, the Masai, who 



