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attacked in midstream by a crocodile, when the mother 
quickly seized the loathly brute with her trunk and fairly 
hurled it through the air, far up on the bank. What a 
scene that would have been! One evening near the sources 
of the Turquell river, excitement was caused in our party 
by the arrival of a dozen slim, tall, well formed Karamojo 
warriors. They had heard our shots, they said, and as they 
were out after elephants themselves, and had failed to kill, 
they came to us and hoped we would give them some meat. 
One spoke good Swahili and we were all soon ona friendly 
footing. At first our N’dorobo and Massai were evidently 
distrustful of the strangers: they drew H. aside and said, 
“‘they were lying, that they were not hunting, but were a 
war party trying to pick up a few Nandi N’dorobo, or some 
of their own people.” Afterward we found that our 
men’s surmise was quite correct, and that the small parties 
of trackers we had sent out to look for elephant had had a 
very narrow escape. Had they fallen across our new 
acquaintances they would have been promptly speared. 
H. indeed had advised his friends to carry, when they went 
out, one of our guns. This would have at once marked 
them as belonging to a white man’s sefari, and would have 
insured their safety. They laughed at the idea of any 
Karamojo raiding so far from home. ‘The recklessness of 
the East African is extraordinary and on this occasion came 
near costing them dear. The Karamojo are a powerful 
tribe living chiefly on their herds, living in complete igno- 
rance and independence of English rule. Their bitter 
enemies are the Turkana whose country lies on the eastern 
side of the Suk mountains and between these tribes the Suk, 
friendly to both, act as peacemakers; Suk Turkana in part 
pay hut tax. We travelled for several days, going hard, in 
order to visit the Karamojo village. Our friends evidently 
wanted us to come and, owing to their hospitality no doubt, 
declared the distance to be less than it was, and the road 
