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IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA 



CHAP. 



Spread out before us, lay the beautiful waters of 

 Angara Sabuk, glistening like a sheet of burnished 

 gold in the brilliant sunshine. At the point where 

 we approached the water the ground sloped gently 

 down to the edge of the lake, which filled up a 

 hollow basin, some 800 yards in diameter, that had 



" THE BEAUTIFUL WATERS OK ANGARA SABUK." 



once been the crater of a vast volcano. It is for 

 this reason that Europeans call this sheet of water 

 Crater Lake, while the Samburu know it as Angara 

 Sabuk or "Great Water." On every side of the lake 

 save where we stood frowned perpendicular walls 

 of hard, black lava, some 100 feet high or more 

 clothed in places with verdure of the deepest green. 



