94 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



Spent the rest of the morning quartering the thin 

 woods below the hill looking for more. Saw quanti- 

 ties of the very tame game, and several steinbuck that 

 thought themselves hidden, and which we passed within 

 a few yards. At camp found another donkey dead. 

 Two more died in the course of the afternoon. This 

 makes thirteen, and one mule. Big thunder storm far 

 to the north, in the mountains. 



Morning, 54; noon, 90; night, 68. Men call this 

 Campi ya Korongo (Roan Camp). 



August 14. — Fine Japanese effect of flat acacias 

 against the glow of the morning sky. Unfavourable 

 reports from M'ganga as to water ahead, so cut back 

 in the hills to the north, between a big round mountain 

 and high rock outcrop. Passes low, and travelling 

 open and very easy. Loads of game. This led us to a 

 wide interior valley sweeping upward to the north be- 

 tween two low ranges, across which we angled toward 

 the upper end where our glasses had disclosed a green 

 spot that looked like water. About noon we found 

 this to be a trickling little clear cold stream, with big 

 trees. The trickle soon ran underground, leaving 

 the country dry and parched, but it made us a shady, 

 pleasant camp in which we resolved to stop for some 

 days. 



While waiting for the safari, Memba Sasa and I went 

 on to find the source, and got a very fine sight of a 

 magnificent black-maned lion. The wind was wrong, 



