THE REDISCOVERED 

 COUNTRY 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY 



In 1910-11 Mrs. White, R. J. Cuninghame, and my- 

 self, with a small safari of forty men, took the usual 

 route via the Kedong valley, Mount Suswa, Agate's 

 Drift to Vandeweyer's homa on the Narossara River. 

 At this point we diverged from the usual route and 

 pushed for some distance south into the Narossara 

 Mountains. We found ourselves eventually confronted 

 by a barrier range which we could not then cross, owing 

 to lack of time, lack of men, and lack of provisions. 

 Inquiries among the Masai elicited very vague de- 

 scriptions of high mountain ranges succeeded by open 

 country. When we had returned to civilization we dis- 

 covered, to our surprise, that we could find out little or 

 nothing of what lay beyond those mountains. They 

 ran in a general northwesterly direction approximately 

 along the Anglo-German border, so that their hinter- 

 land would naturally fall within the German protec- 

 torate. But whether the large triangle was plains, 

 hill, or dale; whether it was watered or arid; whether 



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