CHAPTER XIX 



THROUGH SAMBUKU LAND 



Journeying quietly along in this manner we 

 arrived at the boma of the late Mr. Neumann, who 

 wrote such a very interesting book on elephant 

 hunting in East Equatorial Africa. The natives all 

 knew him as Nyama Yangu, a name they gave 

 him owing to his habit of saying, whenever any- 

 body pointed out an elephant or other animal, 

 '\ Nyama yangii,^' which means "the beast is 

 mine." 



We camped close to his somewhat dilapidated 

 hut under the shade of some doum i)alms, which 

 are plentiful here. A few of the porters employed 

 themselves in o^atherincj the hard fruit of this tree 

 and beating it into a kind of flour, which they then 

 made into bread. I tried a piece of the loaf so 

 made, but cannot say that I relished it very nuich, 

 although the fruit itself has a rather pleasant flavour 

 when reduced to powder. 



