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meat, and we marched off the rocky plateau into a deep 

 gorge where were rock pockets of water. The gorge is 

 one running out from Suswa. Indeed, we are only 

 barely off the slope. Here we made camp by some ex- 

 traordinarily vivid green bushes. 



Cuninghame waited four hours before starting, in 

 order to graze the donkeys. He got in about two o'clock, 

 reporting a quick easy trip with everything going nobly. 



Three and a half hours; 9I miles; elevation, 4,500; 

 ther., 5:00 A. M., 58; noon, St,; 8:30 p. m., 68. 



July II. — Porter preparing my box for the march. 

 To him M'ganga: 



"If you put that meat on that box, it will smell; and 

 the hwana will say something, and he'll say it to me.'' 



Off at 6:40. The early mornings are most strenuous 

 times for Cuninghame and me. Our usual dispositions 

 are as follows: At once on reaching camp the loads 

 are removed from the donkeys, and they are allowed 

 to graze about a while with their saddles on until their 

 backs have had time to cool a bit. Then off-saddle 

 and the Toto takes them grazing until dusk. At dark 

 they are driven into the circle formed by our tents. 

 There two heavy ropes have been stretched along the 

 ground between pegs. At intervals rawhide thongs 

 have been attached to these ropes, and by the thongs 

 the donkeys are made fast by the foreleg. No Ameri- 

 can animal would stand for this treatment, but these 

 beasts are quite peaceable. In the morning Memba 



