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our camp by a particularly fine specimen of this 

 tribe, whom with great difficulty I persuaded to 

 pose for his photograph — indeed he would not 

 submit to the dreaded ordeal until Abbudi and 



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another Masai volunteered to be taken as well so 

 as to reassure him. His great stature is apparent 

 from the accompanying picture. 



I could get no information as to what the 

 country was like between the Pes Swamp and the 



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