CHAPTER XXVII 



November 6. — Loafed and rested all day. By luck 

 we had a bright sun all the morning and were able to 

 dry out our rather bedraggled belongings. A powerful 

 chief to the west of Kenia, Kurioki by name, sent me a 

 present of a sheep and Cuninghame a goat. Why the 

 invidious distinction I do not know. He also sent two 

 of his Wanderobo to hunt with us on his side of the 

 mountain. N'jahgi presented me with his own home- 

 made knife, ground to razor sharpness. This present 

 really meant something, for such a weapon is very 

 valuable to such a man. Our Wanderobo were also 

 very busy preparing a more powerful elephant medi- 

 cine, bringing in stalks of sugar-cane from some distant 

 shamba and thrusting them upright in the ground 

 either side our tents. The other medicine had brought 

 us elephants all right : but evidently something lacked. 

 This was to be especially powerful. 



November 7. — To-day we went outside the forest 

 and marched by native tracks, up and down a fearful 

 series of hills, until we came to Kurioki 's Land. Here 

 we picked up the men he had promised us, and re- 

 entered the forest. The sugar-cane medicine was 

 finished. Each man took a piece of the stalk in his 



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