THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 149 



Elevation, 4,600; morning, 66; noon, 89; night, 73. 



September 2. — We knew this stream flowed into the 

 Mara River, so considered it useless to follow the two 

 sides of the triangle. Therefore when we judged the 

 time right we took compass bearings and struck across 

 on the hypothenuse. 



For some distance the country remained the same, 

 then the hills increased slightly in height, the grass 

 turned high and brown, and in the creases between the 

 hills were strips of dense jungle through which we had 

 to chop a toilsome way. The prospect was exceedingly 

 beautiful, for one could see far abroad, and the winding 

 green strips of jungle patterned the country. But 

 it was very hard work. Almost no game. Plenty of 

 pool water in the ravines. Marched and marched, 

 and at noon found ourselves near a lone rock kopje at 

 the end of a rise of land. This was an excellent land- 

 mark, and we took bearings by it for a week or so here- 

 after. We could thence look back across billowing 

 oceans of scrub trees and grass to where our hills of the 

 Lion Camp showed dim and lone and blue. To the 

 south the ocean-like plain led to infinity. To the west 

 was a long pearly escarpment running unbroken toward 

 the north. Somewhere between us and it must be the 

 Mara. 



Here near this kopje was some game — zebra, topi, 

 hartebeeste, and a lioness that looked at us from a dis- 

 tance. We had no time for anything but business, for 



