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graphic plans to be ascertained in any given direction, a quality 

 of great value to geologists. And thus the topographer and the 

 geologist laboured loyally together; they worked out the whole 

 geological projection in profile from Lake Victoria to Kiwu. 



New instructions were issued at Rufua. Dr. von Raven and 

 Mildbraed were to march out with the chief caravan through 

 the inhabited regions west of the Kakitumbe watercourse to the 

 western end of Lake Mohasi for the purpose of studying the 

 swamp flora of this lake, and to examine into the haematosis of 

 the inhabitants there. Lieutenant von Wiese was sent south to 

 the Kakitumbe to assist Lieutenant Weiss, the signalling expert, 

 with the triangulation, and afterwards to push on to Kakome, 

 at the eastern end of Lake Mohasi. Weiss and Kirschstein 

 were to proceed southwards, west of the Kagera, to make a 

 cartographical and geographical survey of the region lying 

 between Mohasi and South Mpororo, hitherto untrodden by any 

 European, and therefore not even opened up at all. Wintgens, 

 Dr. Schubotz and I proposed making a general tour of inspection 

 throughout this territory, and then meeting the other members of 

 the party at Lake Mohasi. The reunion of forces was fixed for 

 the beginning of August, after a month's interval. 



To make amends for the loss of my European dogs, which 

 had been smitten by the disastrous coastal fever, and were lying 

 very sick in quarantine at Mombasa, we procured two native dogs. 

 They were young, strong, well-shaped animals, yellow-brown in 

 colour, with distinctive white markings and pendulous ear-laps ; 

 they bore a certain resemblance in form to our hunting dogs, and 

 possessed an individuality of their own, the like of which I have 

 seen nowhere else. We were bothered a good deal at first by 

 their wild nature and their attachment to their native village, for 

 they used to gnaw through the cords with which we tied them to 

 the tent. In the end, however, we concluded a treaty of friend- 

 ship with them, and once properly used to their new masters, they 

 held loyally by the caravan. Only one of these animals, how- 

 ever, native to Mombasa, but of German strain, survived the 

 journey to the coast and reached Germany at the finish. 



